Advanced Weapons Technology

Abstract

This Program Element (PE) investigates enabling technologies for High Energy Laser (HEL) weapons. Project 042 develops component technologies such as efficient, high energy, solid state lasers; advanced beam control components; and lethality / effectiveness measurements that enable better models and simulations for future HEL weapon designs. Work in this PE is related to, and fully complements, efforts in PE 0601101A (In-House Laboratory Independent Research), PE 0602120A (Sensors and Electronic Survivability) Project EM8, PE 0603004A (Weapons and Munitions Advanced Technology) Project L96 and Air Force PE 0602890F (HEL Research). The cited work is consistent with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work is performed by the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (USASMDC/ARSTRAT) in Huntsville, AL, and the High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility at White Sands Missile Range, NM.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2018
• Source ID: 0602307A_2_2040_PB_2018
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Autonomy
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Adaptive Optics
• Air Force
• Anti-Tank Missiles
• Control Systems
• Directed Energy Weapons
• High Energy
• High Energy Lasers
• Laser Countermeasures
• Lasers
• Munitions
• Solid State Lasers
• Temperature Control
• Test Facilities
• Test Methods
• United States
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Weapon Systems

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Directed Energy
• Directed Energy - Lasers
• Microelectronics
• Space