AF Foundational Development/Demos

Abstract

This program develops and demonstrates capabilities that enable sustainment, increase the affordability and reliability of manufacturing, and enhance Airman and weapon system performance and effectiveness to provide compelling advantage to the warfighter. Advances to technologies and materials under this program reduce life cycle costs; ensure the industrial base for Air Force systems; boost quality, increase readiness, and improve safety, survivability, and operability of weapon systems; predict, evaluate, and mitigate bioeffects on personnel and mission performance; and enable airmen performance. To the greatest extent practical, integrated technology demonstrations will utilize modeling and simulation, cross-discipline system integration (e.g., platforms, avionics, propulsion, materials, manufacturing, human performance, cybersecurity, and counter directed energy weapons) to demonstrate in a near-operational environment advanced science and technology capabilities that reduce operational risk and accelerate incorporation of technologies into existing and future operational systems. In the FY 2021, the Air Force is consolidating its existing thirteen Advanced Technology Development (ATD), Research Development Test and Evaluation (RDT&E), Budget Activity 03 (BA 03) PEs into five new capability focused RDT&E BA 03 PEs to better align with the Air Force Science and Technology (S&T) Strategy signed by the Secretary of the Air Force in April 2019. This consolidation will improve and accelerate delivery of integrated transformational, multidisciplinary, collaborative technology solutions necessary to enable new Air Force warfighting capabilities that support of the National Defense Strategy. This new structure will provide the Air Force and Congress with a clearer understanding and increased transparency of integrated technology solutions and demonstrations key to enabling the Air Force future force design. In FY 2021, the entirety of PE 0603112F, Advanced Materials for Weapon Systems, and associated Projects will be transferred to PE 0603030F, AF Foundational Development/Demos, with the exception of the Pervasive and Affordable Metals Technologies effort which will be transferred to PE 0602102F, Materials, Project 624347, Materials for Structures, Propulsion, and Subsystems. In FY 2021, the entirety of PE 0603199F, Sustainment Science and Technology (S&T), and associated Projects/activities are transferred to PE 0603030F, AF Foundational Development/Demos. In FY 2021, the entirety of PE 0603680F, Manufacturing Technology Program, and associated Projects/Activities are transferred to PE 0603030F, AF Foundational Development/Demos. In FY 2021, the entirety of Project 635323, Directed Energy Bioeffects Parameters; and Project 635324, Human Dynamics and Terrain Demonstration, are transferred from PE 0603456F, Human Effectiveness Advanced Technology Development, to PE 060303F, AF Foundational Development/Demos. These transfers detailed above are part of the Air Force RDT&E BA 03 PE consolidation in order to realign technology areas to better support the National Defense Strategy, Air Force Future Operating Concept, and Air Force S&T Strategy, April 2019. The Air Force Science and Technology portfolio will continued to be managed at the Enterprise level by the Air Force Technology Executive Officer, dual-hatted as the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Commander, and executed across the various AFRL Technology Directorates and locations. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver science and technology capabilities. The use of program funds in this PE would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 0601102F, 0602102F, 0602201F, 0602202F, 0602203F, 0602204F, 0602602F, 0602605F, 0602788F, 1206601SF, and 0602298F. This program is in Budget Activity 3, Advanced Technology Development because this budget activity includes development of subsystems and components and efforts to integrate subsystems and components into system prototypes for field experiments and/or tests in a simulated environment.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2021
• Source ID: 0603030F_3_3600_PB_2021
• Change Summary Explanation: Increase is FY 2021 of $103.280 million is due to the following PEs, Projects, and efforts being transferred to PE 0603030F, AF Foundational Development/ Demos: 1) The entirety of PE 0603112F, Advanced Materials for Weapon Systems, with the exception of the Pervasive and Affordable Metals Technologies effort 2) The entirety of PE 0603199F, Sustainment Science and Technology (S&T) 3) The entirety of PE 0603680F, Manufacturing Technology Program 4) The entirety of Project 635323, Directed Energy Bioeffects Parameters; and Project 635324, Human Dynamics and Terrain Demonstration, from PE 0603456F, Human Effectiveness Advanced Technology Development These transfers detailed above are part of the Air Force RDT&E BA 03 PE consolidation in order to realign technology areas to better support the National Defense Strategy, Air Force Future Operating Concept, and Air Force S&T Strategy, April 2019.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Biomedical
• Cyber
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Human Systems
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Advanced Manufacturing
• Advanced Materials
• Air Force Research Laboratories
• Aircrafts
• Composite Materials
• Detectors
• Directed Energy Weapons
• Engine Components
• Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
• Infrared Detectors
• Maintenance
• Materials
• Materials Science
• Risk Analysis
• Test And Evaluation
• Turbines
• Weapon Systems

Fields of Study

• Engineering

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Directed Energy