Conventional Munitions

Abstract

This program investigates, develops, and establishes the technical feasibility and military utility of guidance and ordnance technologies for conventional air-launched munitions. Program supports core technical competencies of fuze technology; energetic materials; damage mechanisms; munitions aerodynamics, guidance, navigation, and control; terminal seeker sciences; and munition systems effects. Technologies to be developed include blast, fragmentation, penetrating and low-collateral damage warheads, hard target fuzing, precise terminal guidance, and high performance and insensitive explosives. Efforts in this program have been coordinated through the Department of Defense (DoD) Science and Technology (S&T) Executive Committee process to harmonize efforts and eliminate duplication. This program is in Budget Activity 2, Applied Research because this budget activity includes studies, investigations, and non-system specific technology efforts directed toward general military needs with a view toward developing and evaluating the feasibility and practicality of proposed solutions and determining their parameters.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2016
• Source ID: 0602602F_2_3600_PB_2016
• Change Summary Explanation: Increase in FY 2016 due to a higher priority for seeker, guidance and control, and ordnance technologies for air superiority.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Aerospace Craft
• Air Force
• Aircrafts
• Airframes
• Collateral Damage
• Detectors
• Energetic Materials
• Explosives
• Guidance
• High Resolution
• Materials
• Munitions
• Navigation
• Precision-Guided Munitions
• Terminal Guidance
• Weapons
• Weapons Effects

Readers

• Explosive Engineering.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Missile Defense Systems.