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 air, land and sea contested domains. This program's investment portfolio has been aligned to complement and utilize the Department's priority technology areas.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2024
Source ID
0602000D8Z_2_0400_PB_2024
Change Summary Explanation
The FY 2024 reduction of $0.336 million is comprised of a realignment of $0.424 million to support the Historically Black Colleges Universities/Minority Serving Institutions program, which is a priority of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USD(R&E)), $0.020 million to support departmental priorities and an increase of $0.108 million for economic assumptions.
Service Agency Name
Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Kinetic Weapons

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Advanced Manufacturing
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Detection
  • Efficiency
  • Energetic Materials
  • Explosives
  • Fabrication
  • Machine Learning
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials
  • National Security
  • Propulsion Systems
  • Quantum Computing
  • Target Detection
  • Weapon Delivery
  • Weapons
  • Weapons Effects

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Strategic Security Studies

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