Advanced Weapons Technology

Abstract

This program provides for the development, integration, demonstration, and detailed assessment of directed energy (DE) weapon technologies for potential application on Air Force platforms. These include high energy laser (HEL), high power microwaves (HPM), 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 (SSA). 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 program element 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. 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 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
0603605F_3_3600_PB_2022
Change Summary Explanation
Air Force activities supporting Directed Energy advanced technology development in FY 2022 decreased compared to FY 2021 by 0.690 Million. Funding decreased in order to implement the Department of the Air Force Science and Technology 2030 Strategy for transformational capabilities.
Service Agency Name
Air Force

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Department Of Defense
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Emerging Technology
  • Force Protection
  • High Energy
  • High Energy Lasers
  • High Power Microwaves
  • Laser Weapons
  • Lasers
  • National Security
  • Situational Awareness
  • Solid State Lasers
  • Space Situational Awareness
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Directed Energy
  • Space

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