Weapons and Munitions Advanced Technology

Abstract

This 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. In FY 2018/FY 2019 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). Beginning in FY 2020, work in this PE is related to and fully coordinated with PE 0603118 (Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology), 0603462A (Next Generation Combat Vehicle Advanced Technology), 0603464A (Long Range Precision Fires Advanced Technology), 0603465A (Future Vertical Lift Advanced Technology), PE 0603466A (High Energy Laser Tactical Vehicle Demonstrator Advanced Technology), and PE 0603119A (Ground Advanced Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. All FY 2020 adjustments align program financial structure to Army Modernization Priorities in support of the National Defense Strategy. The work in this PE is performed by the U.S. Army Futures Command (AFC) 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, 2020
• Source ID: 0603004A_3_2040_PB_2020
• Change Summary Explanation: FY18 congressional adds for Program increase ($42.000 million), Gun-launched unmanned aerial system ($3.000 million), High energy laser research ($15.000 million), and High energy laser rotorcraft integration ($8.000 million). FY19 congressional adds for Program increase ($42.000 million), advanced development of asset protection technologies ($5.000 million), accelerate ERCA gun ($12.000 million), high energy laser ($20.000 million), long range precision fires ($35.000 million), and hypersonic capability ($25.000 million). This Program Element (PE) is eliminated in FY20 as part of the Science and Technology (S&T) financial restructure initiative; however, continuity of effort is preserved through transition to new Program Elements (PE ) / Projects.
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Ammunition
• Anti-Tank Missiles
• Cluster Munitions
• Combat Vehicles
• Control Systems
• Directed Energy Weapons
• Energetic Materials
• Explosives
• Global Positioning Systems
• Lasers
• Munitions
• Projectiles
• Test And Evaluation
• Unexploded Ammunition
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Warfare
• Weapon Systems

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Munitions and Ordnance Engineering

Technology Areas

• Directed Energy
• Directed Energy - Lasers
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Microelectronics
• Space