Target Systems Development

Abstract

This Program Element funds aerial and ground target hardware and software development, maintenance, and upgrades. The overall objective is to ensure validation of weapon system accuracy and reliability by developing aerial and ground targets essential for test and evaluation (T&E). These targets are economical and expendable, remotely controlled or stationary, and often destroyed in use. The Army is the Tri-Service lead under the Secretariat Reliance panel for providing rotary wing, mobile ground, towed, and designated targets for T&E. The Army executes development of some service-peculiar target requirements in support of quality assurance, lot acceptance, and training and continues development of service-peculiar and on-going target materiel upgrades to maintain continuity with current weapons technology and trends in modern and evolving Army weapons.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2020
• Source ID: 0604258A_6_2040_PB_2020
• Change Summary Explanation: Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Congressional Add increase of $20.000 million is for the Cyber Virtualization Center and will ensure cyber hardening of missile, aviation, and command/control systems at the earliest phases of development as well as throughout the acquisition lifecycle. FY20 decrease of $1.017 million aligns program requirements to Army Modernization priorities in support of the National Defense Strategy.
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Autonomy
• Cyber
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Aerial Targets
• Aircrafts
• Control Systems
• Engineering
• Ground Vehicles
• Indirect Fire
• Life Cycle Management
• Life Cycles
• National Security
• Reliability
• Small Business
• Software Development
• Surface Targets
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Readers

• Aerospace Engineering.
• Aerospace Test and Evaluation
• Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.