Conventional Weapons Technology

Abstract

This project develops, integrates, and demonstrates advanced ordnance and guidance technologies for air-launched conventional weapons. The effort focuses on conventional ordnance component technologies such as warheads, fuzes, and explosives, as well as munition guidance component technologies such as navigation and control systems and seekers. Technologies to be developed, demonstrated, and integrated into system concepts will address blast, fragmentation, penetration, low collateral damage, variable depth/location fuzing, precise guidance, and high-performance and insensitive explosives. Efforts in this project have been coordinated through the Department of Defense Science and Technology Executive Committee process to harmonize efforts and eliminate duplication. 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.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2022
Source ID
0603601F_3_3600_PB_2022
Change Summary Explanation
FY 2021 and 2022: Congressional directed realignment due to reversal of program element restructure.
Service Agency Name
Air Force

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Air Launched
  • Control Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Digital Engineering
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Energetic Materials
  • Explosives
  • Flight Testing
  • High Resolution
  • Materials
  • Munitions
  • Navigation
  • Propulsion Systems
  • Radio Frequency
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Space

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