Weapons and Munitions Technology

Abstract

The objective of this program element (PE) is to design and develop enabling technology for improved lethal and nonlethal weapons and munitions with increased performance and the potential for lower weight, reduced size, and improved affordability. This PE supports weapons and munitions development (project H18); technologies to maintain the lethality of US weapons and directed energy (DE) technologies and subsystems to support the weaponization of high power microwave (HPM), and short pulse lasers (project H19) and development of munition components such as fuzes, power, warheads with tailorable effects, and insensitive munition compliant energetic materials (project H28). Project H1A funds congressional special interest items. The cited work is consistent with the Director, Defense Research and Engineering Strategic Plan, the Army Modernization Strategy, and the Army Science and Technology Master Plan. Work in this PE is primarily performed by the Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center (ARDEC) at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ, in cooperation with the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, the Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center (CERDEC), Fort Belvoir, VA, the Tank Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center (TARDEC), Warren, MI, and the Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC), Huntsville, AL.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2012
Source ID
0602624A_2_2040_PB_2012
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Army

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Counter Countermeasures
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Energetic Materials
  • Energy Management
  • Engineering
  • Explosives
  • High Power Microwaves
  • Line Of Sight
  • Materials
  • Munitions
  • Propellants
  • Propulsion Systems
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unexploded Ammunition
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons
  • Weapons Effects

Readers

  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics

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