# Survivability/Lethality Analysis — Program Element 0605604A

**Program element:** 0605604A  
**Component:** U.S. Army  
**Appropriation:** 2040 — RDT&E, Army  
**Budget Activity:** 6 — RDT&E Management Support  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605604A

## Summary

U.S. Army requests $31.3M in FY2027, sustained across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators funded it in full.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 36.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 31.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 31.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 31.8 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 32.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 32.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 32.3 |

> Estimate types are not summed — the profile mixes actuals, enacted law, the request, and outyear projections.

## Congressional marks (FY2027)

| Stage | Marked ($M) | Change ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| Request | 31.3 | — |
| House NDAA (HASC) | 31.3 | +0.0 |
| Senate NDAA (SASC) | 31.3 | +0.0 |
| House Approps (HAC-D) | 31.3 | +0.0 |

> FY2027 NDAA authorization marks, as of 2026-07-27. Not appropriations or final law.

## Projects (1)

| Project | Title | FY2025 actual | FY2026 enacted | FY2027 request | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 675 | Army Survivability Analysis & Evaluation Supp | 36.8 | 31.3 | 31.3 | −0% |

> Projects are the summable leaves: the program element total is their sum, never added to it.

### Project 675 — Army Survivability Analysis & Evaluation Supp

This project funds objective survivability, lethality and vulnerability (SLV) analyses necessary for Army Senior Leader decision-making. Products result from investigating, analyzing, assessing, experimenting and reporting on the survivability of Soldiers, and on the SLV of the highest priority Army and threat systems. Products are used to exercise constructive design influence over materiel development and to provide credible engineering-level underpinning and input to the Army's analytical and test & evaluation communities. This project provides quantitative analyses and data for fielded and developmental systems as the Army pursues its modernization priorities and ensures readiness through the fielding of lethal and survivable systems for all-domain operations. This Project funds engineering level analysis and experimentation to analyze system performance in critical technology areas, including aviation, ground vehicle and protection technologies, communications, command and control (C3), autonomy, unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and counter UAS, sensing and intelligence, energetics/fires, assured positioning, navigation and timing (A-PNT), propulsion, power and energy, and other Army priorities. Principal data and analysis domains are system performance, cyber resilience, human systems integration (HSI), electromagnetic warfare (EW) threat defense, ballistic lethality and vulnerability, and mission threat analysis. Analyses funded by this project are conducted across the spectrum of battlefield threats to include: guns, missiles, mines and other methods of inflicting physical damage; jammers, countermeasures, and other EW techniques; cyber threats from insiders to nation states; and directed energy weapons. Many different kinds of technical capabilities are used to generate these analyses, including specialized equipment, modeling & simulation (M&S), and experimental facilities. This project ensures these capabilities can represent a live, virtual, and constructive hostile environment required for credible analysis, thus enabling decision makers to make informed acquisition judgments. This technical data from earliest experimentation to fielding is retained and serves as the Army's authoritative source of system performance analysis information for supporting an ever-improving body of evidence to drive milestone decisions.

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Survivability, Lethality, Vulnerability (SLV) Analyses for Ground, Aviation, Munitions, and Soldier Systems | 16.2 | 13.3 | 13.5 |
| Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) System Survivability Assessments | 18.2 | 15.7 | 15.4 |
| Survivability, Lethality, Vulnerability (SLV) Analyses for Developmental Air and Missile Defense Systems | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.4 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

## Mission & acquisition strategy

This Program Element (PE) funds objective vulnerability assessment products necessary for the inherently-governmental Army Test & Evaluation Command/Army Evaluation Center (ATEC/ AEC) mission and for the Rresearch and development and analysis communities. Products result from investigating, analyzing, assessing, experimenting and reporting on the survivability of Soldiers, and on the survivability, lethality and vulnerability (SLV) of the highest-priority Army and threat systems.

## Related program elements

- [0602605F — Directed Energy Technology](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602605F) (Air Force)
- [0601103A — University Research Initiatives](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0601103A) (Army)
- [0602275A — Electronic Warfare Applied Research](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602275A) (Army)
- [0604757N — Ship Self Def (Engage: Soft Kill/EW)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604757N) (Navy)

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-3, PE 0605604A (PB PB2027); FY2027 NDAA committee marks (as of 2026-07-27).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0605604A")`.

*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Defense. Budget figures are requests/estimates, not obligations.*