# Vehicle Protection System Base Kit Integration of Non-Developmental Items (NDI) and Developmental Technologies

**R-2A activity** of project FE8 — Vehicle Protection Suite  
**Program element:** 0604852A — Suite of Survivability Enhancement Systems - EMD  
**Component:** U.S. Army · **Budget Activity:** 5  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604852A/FE8/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604852A

## Summary

This activity requests $12.0M in FY2027, 15% of project FE8, down 49% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2025–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** Continue Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA) software development to support Laser Warning Receiver (LWR) integration, testing, and fielding efforts for ground combat vehicles, and enable future hard kill and soft kill Active Protection Systems (APS) integration with VIPERS and the Vehicle Protection System Base Kit (VBK). Complete Abrams and Bradley VBK with LWR integration, vehicle level testing, logistic product development, and developmental and operational test (DT/OT).

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** FY 2026 to FY 2027 decrease due to reduced testing requirements for the Vehicle Base Kit with Laser Warning Receiver.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Continue Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA) software development to support Laser Warning Receiver (LWR) integration, testing, and fielding efforts for ground combat vehicles, and enable future hard kill and soft kill Active Protection Systems (APS) integration with VIPERS and the Vehicle Protection System Base Kit (VBK). Focus on Abrams and Bradley VBK with LWR integration, vehicle level testing, logistic product development, and developmental and operational test (DT/OT).

**FY2025 accomplishments.** Continue MOSA software development to support Laser Warning Receiver (LWR) integration, test and fielding efforts for ground combat vehicles and enable future hard kill and soft kill active protection systems integration with the VBK. On Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) and Stryker, complete VBK with LWR integration through Critical Design Review. For Abrams and Bradley continue VBK with LWR integration, vehicle level testing, logistic product development and developmental and operational test (DT/OT).

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 39.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 23.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.0 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project FE8

- [Survivability Improvements](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604852A/FE8/a1) — FY2027 56.6
- Vehicle Protection Suite Government Engineering and Program Management — FY2027 9.7

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0604852A project FE8 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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