Weapons and Munitions Advanced Technology
Abstract
This Program Element (PE) matures weapons and munitions components/subsystems and demonstrates lethal weapons systems with potential to increase force application and force protection capabilities across the spectrum of operations. Project 232 focuses on affordable delivery of scalable effects for kinetic weapons and munitions including: artillery, mortars, medium caliber, tank fired, Soldier weapons and shoulder fired weapons. Project L96 matures and integrates critical high energy laser subsystems into mobile demonstrators to explore and validate system performance in relevant environments. Project L97 demonstrates performance of advanced obscurants and delivery of mechanisms and conducts forensic analysis of explosives and hazardous materials to enable detection. Work in this PE is related to, and fully coordinated with, PE 0602120A (Sensors and Electronic Survivability), PE 0602307A (Advanced Weapons Technology), PE 0602618A (Ballistics Technology), PE 0602622A (Chemical, Smoke, and Equipment Defeating Technology), PE 0602624A (Weapons and Munitions Technology), PE 0602772A (Advanced Tactical Computer Science and Sensor Technology), PE 0602782A (Command, Control, Communications Technology), PE 0603005A (Combat Vehicle and Automotive Advanced Technology), PE 0603008A (Electronic Warfare Advanced Technology), and PE 0603313A (Missile and Rocket Advanced Technology). 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 and supports the Chief of Staff of the Army's (CSA's) future capability opportunities for leap-ahead technology for directed energy. The work in this PE is performed by the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) and the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (USASMDC/ARSTRAT).
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- 0603004A_3_2040_PB_2019
- Change Summary Explanation
- FY17 Congressional increase in project 43A Adv Weaponry Tech Demo for small Unmanned Aerial System (UAS), high energy laser research (HEL), and survive and project indirect fires. FY19 funding increased in this PE to address higher priority Army Modernization efforts in the area of Long Range Precision Fires.
- Service Agency Name
- Army
Entities
Organizations
- United States Army
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