Joint Munitions Technology
Abstract
This program conducts cross-cutting, foundational research improving the lethality, range, reliability, safety, survivability, and effectiveness of kinetic weapon systems to rapidly advance U.S. capabilities necessary for the Joint Fight. The program technology objectives include: high-speed weapon delivery, longer range precision effects, networked and collaborative systems of systems, agility at the engagement level, increased capacity / affordable munitions, survivability during delivery and target engagement, and open systems architecture. The program develops enabling technologies specific to kinetic weapon munitions (warheads, propulsion, advanced lethality mechanisms, state of the art fuzing technologies, and pioneering targeting technologies) from a Joint Service, multi-domain perspective, thus maximizing efficiencies and ensuring the development of technologies with the broadest applicability to ensure good stewardship of taxpayer dollars. U.S. power projection capabilities are comparable to near peer adversaries, and there is an urgent need to provide U.S. warfighters with augmented or new capabilities to ensure technical superiority. The program follows a threat/opportunity analysis to develop kinetic capabilities that enable scenario-based effects from a Joint Fight perspective by exploring technological advances that are beyond Service investment risk acceptance and target asymmetric advantage. The goal is to enable military dominance to ensure effective deterrence of adversary aggression. The program will invest in technologies that will enable U.S. warfighters to regain the operational and battlefield advantages that technologies can provide through increased performance, range, and lethality to improve the Joint Force military advantages and build a more lethal force across all contested domains – air, land, sea, and space. This program's investment portfolio has been aligned to complement, and utilize, the Department's priority technology areas.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- 0602000D8Z_2_0400_PB_2022
- Change Summary Explanation
- Service Agency Name
- Office of the Secretary Of Defense
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
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