Nuclear Weapons Support

Abstract

This program executes and provides technical and programmatic support to the testing, evaluation, and mitigation of effects of nuclear weapon employment that impact Air Force systems with initial emphasis on existing nuclear weapons, their delivery systems, and associated communications systems. It includes facilities and equipment required to perform testing, risk assessments, survivability/vulnerability studies, and effectiveness evaluation of various mitigation strategies. It includes modeling and simulation efforts for systems of systems analysis where assessments are not possible through testing alone. This program will recommend upgrades to existing/fielded systems as well as informing requirements for future (modernization/recapitalization) systems. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2018
• Source ID: 0604222F_7_3600_PB_2018
• Change Summary Explanation: FY18 increase by $27.579M for Electronic Magnetic Pulse (EMP)
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Counter WMD

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Force
• Contracts
• Cost Analysis
• Costs
• Electromagnetic Pulses
• Nuclear Weapons
• Performance Tests
• Production
• Program Management
• Risk
• Risk Analysis
• Simulations
• Survivability
• Systems Analysis
• Test And Evaluation
• Vulnerability
• Weapons

Readers

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