Joint Munitions Advanced Technology

Abstract

This program supports the Department's initiatives to Deter Aggression, and Defend the Homeland. This program advances, demonstrates and transitions joint, pervasive munitions enhancing technologies (warheads, propulsion systems, advanced lethality mechanisms, fuzes and fuze components, and targeting). The goal is to demonstrate joint enabling technologies that increase and improve the performance, lethality, range, reliability, safety, and survivability for existing and inform development of future weapons systems. The program strategically develops and demonstrates advanced munitions technologies that ensure warfighter technical superiority and enable outcomes in 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 deployment and target engagement, and open systems architecture. This program’s Joint Munitions Advanced Technologies are vital to guide, coordinate and maximize DoD and Service S&T munitions investments into follow-on system demonstration and integration activities. The program prioritizes investments from a Joint Service perspective and demonstrates technologies that inform capabilities, thus maximizing efficiencies and ensuring the development of technologies with the broadest applicability to ensure good stewardship of taxpayer dollars. This munitions Science and Technology (S&T) program focuses on enhancements in weapon speed, range, and lethality while largely utilizing existing advanced insensitive munitions (IM) technology to maximize weapon safety. In order to maintain superiority 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 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.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
• Source ID: 0603000D8Z_3_0400_PB_2023
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2022 funding increase reflects Congressional add of $7.000 million for Energetics Revitalization. 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

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Cluster Munitions
• Energetic Materials
• Explosives
• Ground Control Stations
• Insensitive Explosives
• Manufacturing
• Materials Testing
• Munitions
• Munitions Testing
• National Security
• Performance Tests
• Propellants
• Propulsion Systems
• Test And Evaluation
• Unexploded Ammunition
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

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