Armament/Ordnance Development

Abstract

The Armament/Ordnance Development program provides for initial and continuing development of weapons/munitions (kinetic and non-kinetic) and munitions equipment for support and operational use. This program develops and improves the following weapons and weapons subsystems: bombs, bomb fuzes (to include the FMU-152 and FMU-139 general purpose, commodity fuzes), insensitive explosive fills (Insensitive Munitions - IM), aircraft ammunition, stores-aircraft interface upgrades to include the Universal Armament Interface (UAI), directed energy technology transition to weapons, munitions materiel handling equipment (MMHE), munitions containers, and other weapon subsystems. - Bombs and Fuzes (Armament Subsystems): This project develops and improves conventional weapons/munitions (kinetic and non-kinetic) and fuzes. The project also provides an opportunity to quickly insert emerging technologies into existing and developing aircraft munitions and fuzes. Bombs and fuzes provides research, development and testing of conventional warhead and fuzing modifications to improve lethality against area targets, to include anti-personnel anti-material (APAM) targets. This project provides for the development and testing necessary to provide a suitable manufacturing base of conventional warheads and fuzes. The project provides for research, development, and testing of medium caliber ammunition and enterprise management of guns, ammunition, and Munitions Materiel Handling Equipment (MMHE) systems integration and testing to ensure tested and certified medium caliber ammunition is provided to users. The project helps the AF meet Insensitive Munitions (IM) compliance requirements through strategic planning, development of insensitive explosive fills, and bomb case modifications to make weapons insensitive to unplanned stimuli. Armament Standardization/Control/Munitions Materiel Handling Equipment (MMHE) is a continuing project to develop and improve the standardization and commonality of munitions handling and armament equipment to preclude duplication. This project also funds the operation of the tri-service Container Design Retrieval System (CDRS), maintaining a container database to preclude proliferation and duplication of munitions containers and supporting organic container design. - BLU-109 and BLU-113 Upgrade [Advanced BLU-109 and BLU-113 (A2K/A5K)]: This project demonstrates advancements in capability of these two legacy penetrator warheads, enabling them to hold more targets at risk than currently achievable. - Stores-Aircraft Interface: This project conducts stores-aircraft interface upgrades and standards development to include the Universal Armament Interface (UAI). UAI is an Air Force initiative to develop standardized software interfaces in aircraft, weapons and mission planning to support integration of weapons independent of aircraft Operational Flight Program (OFP) cycles. Significant savings of cost and time are achieved using UAI. This program is in Budget Activity 5, System Development and Demonstration (SDD) because it has passed Milestone B approval and is conducting engineering and manufacturing development tasks aimed at meeting validated requirements prior to full rate production.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2015
• Source ID: 0604602F_5_3600_PB_2015
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2013, Other Adjustments: -$0.834M, Sequestration FY 2014, Congressional Directed Reductions: -$2.623M, Program decrease FY 2015, Other Adjustments: +$7.516M +9.900M, Improved Lethality -1.384M, Reduction of funds due to higher AF priorities
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Air Force
• Aircrafts
• Ammunition
• Bombs
• Cluster Munitions
• Configuration Management
• Contracts
• Control Systems
• Engineering
• Fabrication
• Insensitive Explosives
• Munitions
• Procurement
• Satellite Guided Weapons
• Standards
• Test And Evaluation

Readers

• Munitions and Ordnance Engineering

Technology Areas

• Directed Energy