Suite of Survivability Enhancement Systems - EMD

The Suite of Survivability Enhancement Systems under the Army's Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) budget activity, aims to address the lack of effective protection for ground combat vehicle platforms and tactical wheeled vehicles within Army Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs). The program's specific objectives include developing and integrating active, reactive, and passive solutions onto multiple ground combat vehicles to increase protection from current and next-generation direct or indirect fired threat munitions. Additionally, the program will install and characterize Non-Developmental Item (NDI) Active Protection Systems on Bradley and Stryker demonstrator vehicles to assess maturity, performance, and integration risk. The overall goal is to mitigate existing protection gaps, allow for future technology insertion to meet evolving threats, and minimize the impact on current capabilities hosted on Army ground system platforms.

The program's planned activities include integrating Laser Warning Receiver (LWR) through the Vehicle Protection System (VPS) Base Kit based on the Modular Active Framework (MAF) onto ground combat vehicle platforms. It also involves continuing passive and reactive armor tile engineering development, testing, logistic product development, and fielding of active, reactive, and passive survivability improvements onto ground combat vehicle platforms. Furthermore, the program will execute a trade study/feasibility assessment to identify capabilities for active, reactive, and passive protection solutions to pursue in future tranches. The acquisition strategy involves assessing the cost, maturity, complexity, performance, and physical properties of enhanced survivability technologies to determine their optimal application onto the Army's ground combat platforms.