Advanced Weapons Technology

Abstract

This program provides for the development, integration, demonstration, and detailed assessment of directed energy weapon technologies including high energy laser (HEL), high power electromagnetics (HPEM), and other unconventional weapon generation and transmission technologies, which can support a wide range of Air Force applications. The program develops a corresponding susceptibility, vulnerability, and lethality database for directed energy weapons. Efforts in this program have been coordinated through the Department of Defense (DoD) Science and Technology (S&T) Executive Committee process to harmonize efforts and eliminate duplication. 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, 2016
• Source ID: 0603605F_3_3600_PB_2016
• Change Summary Explanation: Decrease in FY16 is due to higher DoD priorities.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Air Platforms
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Air Force
• Aircrafts
• Battle Damage Assessment
• Control Systems
• Counter Rocket, Artillery, And Mortor
• Damage Assessment
• Department Of Defense
• Directed Energy Weapons
• Electronics
• Energy
• High Energy
• High Energy Lasers
• High Power Microwaves
• Lasers
• Lessons Learned
• Weapons

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Directed Energy