Joint Munitions Technology
Abstract
This program supports the Department's initiatives to Deter Aggression, Defend the Homeland, and Build Sustainable and Long-Term Advantage. 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. In order to maintain superior power protection capabilities against near peer adversaries, 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 maintain or regain 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, 2023
- Source ID
- 0602000D8Z_2_0400_PB_2023
- Change Summary Explanation
- FY 2022 funding increase reflects $1.000 million Congressional add for Next Generation Explosives and Propellants. FY 2023 funding increase reflects the fact that the FY 2022 President’s Budget request did not include out-year funding.
- Service Agency Name
- Office of the Secretary Of Defense
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
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