Advanced Materials for Weapon Systems

Abstract

This program develops and demonstrates advanced materials and process technologies to satisfy Department of the Air Force requirements in areas such as survivability, readiness, affordability, and new processes and materials. These projects ensure the Department of the Air Force weapon systems are ready and able when needed. The Department of the Air Force technologies in this program are both enabling and enduring as we invest in maturing emerging technologies that address established mission gaps, and transformational technologies that address integrated enterprise capabilities intended to reshape the future force across air, space, and cyber warfighting domains. Development of transformational operational capabilities through advanced technology solutions focuses on five strategic capabilities: Global Persistent Awareness; Resilient Information Sharing; Rapid, Effective Decision-Making; Complexity, Unpredictability, and Mass; and Speed and Reach of Disruption and Lethality. 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, 2022
• Source ID: 0603112F_3_3600_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: Increase in FY 2022 is due Congressional realignment of advanced materials efforts back to this program element.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Cyber
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Human Systems
• Sensors
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Additive Manufacturing
• Advanced Materials
• Air Force
• Air Force Personnel
• Aircrafts
• Ceramic Matrix Composites
• Composite Structures
• Detection
• Detectors
• Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
• High Temperature
• Infrared Detectors
• Life Cycle Management
• Life Cycles
• Materials
• Materials Science
• Structural Components

Readers

• Aerospace Engineering.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Space