Tank and Medium Caliber Ammunition
Abstract
A portion of this funding line is directly aligned to each Future Vertical Lift (FVL) and Assured Positioning, Navigation, & Timing (APNT) Army Modernization Priorities. The Tank and Medium Caliber Ammunition Program Element encompasses a comprehensive program to develop, rapidly transition to production, and field advanced weapons and munitions for small, medium and large caliber munitions, tank ammunition, mortar ammunition, cannon artillery ammunition, and close combat system items. These Projects will ensure continued battlefield overmatch and lethality of United States maneuver forces against the full range of modern battlefield threats. To achieve this, Tank and Medium Caliber Ammunition projects will identify and develop promising technologies through competitive development and streamlined acquisition procedures. Project CD8 - Long Range Precision Munition (LRPM) is an Army Aviation weapon that will provide leap ahead capability in the penetration and dis-integration phases of Joint All Domain Operations (JADO). The ability to interoperate and coordinate with other weapon systems and munitions at long ranges and adapt to changing threats is a core concept of the Army Aviation Weapons, Sub-Systems, and Munitions Initial Capability Document validated in July 2018, as well as the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft Abbreviated Capabilities Development Document (FARA A-CDD) dated 15 Aug 2022. Primary target set for LRPM is Integrated Air Defense Systems. LRPM will provide Army Aviation with a precise long range munition system to rapidly respond in a combat environment in order to improve the survivability of Warfighters and weapon systems, including aviation platforms in an Anti-Access Area Denial (A2AD) and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) denied environment. Project EB9 - Project EB9 Aviation Airborne Expendable Countermeasure (AAECM) supports the advanced development activities and technology demonstrations of the AAECM to include the XM215 Flare and XM20 Radio Frequency (RF) expendables. These expendable countermeasures systems are essential parts for Army aircraft and will be employed with currently fielded countermeasures as a cocktail to provide protection against all threats. Army Research Development Technology & Evaluation (RDT&E) efforts are coordinated with Program Executive Office (PEO) Aviation to address the AAECM capability, a critical Aircraft Survivability Equipment (ASE) enabler for enduring aircraft and the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Cross Functional Team (CFT) within the Army's top modernization priorities. These advanced decoys will address deficiencies in Army aircraft protection and the safety of its aircrews against advanced Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) and shoulder launched Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAM) systems. This program will evaluate integrated technologies and countermeasure prototype systems in realistic operating test environments. Prototypes will demonstrate component and subsystem maturity prior to integration into major Army aircraft platforms. Project EC3 Ammunition Logistics Prototyping: This Project supports the future force by improving the distribution, management, reliability and survivability of ammunition through the advanced development, integration, and demonstration of logistics system enablers. These enablers will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of ammunition operations, to include retrograde, while reducing the logistics footprint on the battlefield. Technology areas addressed include handling, distribution, and management (strategic and tactical), prognostics, diagnostics, and asset visibility, explosives safety, and adaptive and environmentally friendly packaging and palletization. The efficient deployment and sustainment of reliable ammunition is vital to success on the battlefield. This Project enhances the operational effectiveness of the ammunition logistics system to ensure the distribution of reliable ammunition to the warfighter. Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 funding will be used to further mature munition health monitoring devices in accordance with the needs of the relevant PMs. However, the preponderance of the funding will be used to directly to support Long Range Precision Fire (LRPF) munition health monitoring requirements throughout its resupply process. Specifically, the funding will be used to address munition health monitoring and packaging/preservation of munitions within the tactical movement of large caliber ammunition. Project FA5 - The Assured Precision Weapons and Munitions (APWM) Project is focused on advanced risk mitigation, technology integration, prototyping, and product support to identify, evaluate, mature, test, and demonstrate various assured precision prototype technologies in weapon and munitions components and subsystems within a complex system-of-systems (SoS) environment. The APWM Project reinforces the National Defense Strategy's major lines of effort through technology development and prototyping, which increases lethality and ensures future combat overmatch success of the Joint Force against peer/near-peer adversaries. This project also aims to improve program performance and affordability for multiple weapons and munitions Programs of Record (PoRs) via Joint Lethality Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Navigation Warfare (NavWar), and Army M-Code Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinated efforts. The APWM Project directly supports top Army Modernization Priorities via the Assured PNT/Space (APNT/S) and Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF) imperatives in support of the National Defense Strategy and multiple Public Law related Congressional imperatives. Funding will support engagement by weapons and munitions PNT experts in the development, evaluation, and technology delivery activities of the US Space Force's M-Code GPS, Army's PNT related programs, and APNT/S Cross-Functional Team (CFT) programs in support of LRPF and Counter Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) missions. Funding will also enable component and subsystem architecture input essential for Precision Weapons and Munitions (PW&M) operating in a SoS environment, Army M-Code GPS technology integration and evaluation, planning and evaluating next generation M-Code GPS to validate capability for future Joint precision munitions, and maturation of alternative PNT and NavWar related technologies and solutions to enable Resilient and Survivable PNT as well as making informed APNT related PoR milestone and Army cross-functional modernization decisions.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- 0603639A_4_2040_PB_2024
- Change Summary Explanation
- The FY24 change is due to an increase in project FA5 / Assured Precision Weapons and Munitions (APMW). The increase is needed in Fires APNT to maintain development pace with Joint APNT prototyping initiatives directly addressing Congressional mandates for resilient and survivable PNT and M- code. Maintaining pace avoids larger future integration APNT costs for M-Code Inc 2 (needed to address critical obsolescence and Joint Fires capability needs) and Software Defined Receivers to continue to outpace the threat maintaining Joint Fires overmatch.
- Service Agency Name
- Army
Entities
Organizations
- United States Army
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