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, 2022
• Source ID: 0604258A_6_2040_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: Increase in funding from FY 2021 to FY 2022 for Aerial Targets is in support of program requirements in support of Army Modernization priorities such as Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF) targets and Next-Generation Combat Vehicles (NGCV) adversaries. Increased funding will allow development of simultaneous target control in multiple domains, and to address required updates to the Unmanned Aerial System - Target (UAS-T). Increase in funding from FY 2021 to FY 2022 for Ground Targets supports development of surface targets representing emerging ground threats, and requirements to implement fidelity level of target geometry with scientific prediction software to support Army Modernization priorities.
• 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

• Air Defense
• Aircrafts
• Airframes
• Combat Vehicles
• Computers
• Control Systems
• Defense Systems
• Ground Vehicles
• Indirect Fire
• Life Cycle Management
• Multiple Launch Rocket System
• Reliability
• Rocket Artillery
• Test And Evaluation
• United States
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Marksmanship and Weaponry.
• Missile Defense Systems.