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 advanced 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. 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.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2024
Source ID
0603000D8Z_3_0400_PB_2024
Change Summary Explanation
FY 2024 reduction of $1.117 is comprised of a realignment of $1.268 million to support the Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Serving Institutions program, which is a priority of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USD(R&E)), $0.061 million to support departmental priorities and an economic assumption of $0.212.
Service Agency Name
Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Kinetic Weapons

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cluster Munitions
  • Detection
  • Energetic Materials
  • High Reliability
  • High Resolution
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Multiple Input Multiple Output
  • Munitions
  • National Security
  • Production Engineering
  • Propulsion Systems
  • Target Detection
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering

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