Advanced Weapons Technology

Abstract

This program provides for the development, integration, demonstration, and detailed assessment of directed energy weapon technologies for potential application on Air Force platforms. These include high energy laser, high power microwaves, 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. This program also develops laser-enabled atmospheric-compensated optical imaging for space situational awareness. Efforts in this program have been coordinated through the Department of Defense Science and Technology Executive Committee process to harmonize efforts and eliminate duplication. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver science & 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, 0602601F, 0602602F, 0602605F, 0602788F, 1206601F, 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, 2019
• Source ID: 0603605F_3_3600_PB_2019
• Change Summary Explanation: Decrease in FY 2019 due to realignment of funds to focus on Directed Energy Game Changer efforts
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Force
• Aircrafts
• Anti-Personnel Weapons
• Demonstrations
• Department Of Defense
• Directed Energy Weapons
• Energy
• Force Protection
• High Energy
• High Energy Lasers
• High Power Microwaves
• Laser Beams
• Lasers
• Situational Awareness
• Solid State Lasers
• Space Situational Awareness
• Weapons

Readers

• Civilian Systems Systems Program Capability Development and Upgrade Support Activity Expense and Pay Management.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Directed Energy
• Space