What project L79 buys
Project L79 supports the Joint Effects Targeting System (JETS) program and the development of Handheld Fires (HHF), which addresses the one-man, hand-held precision targeting gap identified by the Fires Center of Excellence (FCoE). JETS is a lightweight, handheld system that will provide the single dismounted observer with a common, enhanced day and night thermal capability to rapidly acquire, accurately locate, positively identify, and precisely designate targets. The Handheld Fires System will be an advanced precision targeting system incorporating improved target acquisition sensors and optics, improved targeting sensors, targeting algorithms, and a Military Code (M-Code) Global Positing System (GPS) receiver while reducing size, weight, and power requirements.
- Management Services
- Product Development
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
Project L79 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 19.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 20.7 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 8.3 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 9.3 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 8.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 8.4 |
2 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
FY2027 planned work FY 2027 Resources will be used to continue competitive development of Handheld Fires.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to beginning developmental testing and subsequent design iterations for Handheld Fires Prototypes.
FY2026 plans — current year FY 2026 Resources will be used to initiate competitive development of Handheld Fires.
FY2025 accomplishments In FY 2023, JETS II development contracts were awarded to two vendors; however, in FY 2025 both contracts were terminated for convenience due to their inability to meet cost and schedule requirements. The PM is exploring and assessing emerging technologies with the Fires Center of Excellence (FCoE) for a Handheld Fires System materiel solution, which will produce similar capabilities as the JETS II System but at a reduced cost.
Named performers on project L79
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.