Armament/Ordnance Development
Abstract
The Armament Ordnance Development program provides for the initial and continuing development of weapons, munitions, and munitions equipment for aircraft integration, support, and operational use. This program develops, characterizes, and improves current, future, and legacy munitions, ammunitions, and subsystems. 653133: The Bombs & Fuzes project improves conventional weapons/munitions (kinetic and non-kinetic), fuzes, and height-of-burst sensors (HOBS), and develops and integrates complementary common weapon components, data links, position, navigation, and timing (PNT) capabilities (i.e. GPS, non-GPS, optical, passive, active, etc.) using modern acquisition best practices, to include digital acquisition practices (e.g. government-owned open system architectures, Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and agile software development). It also provides for the development and testing necessary for a suitable manufacturing base of conventional warheads, fuzes, HOBS, and munitions material handling equipment (MMHE). Bombs & Fuzes also provides research, development, testing and guidance of conventional warheads, fuzing, HOBS modifications, and anti-personnel anti-materiel (APAM) weapons to improve lethality and survivability against area, mobile, hard and deeply buried, and fixed targets. Finally, this project provides an opportunity to quickly insert emerging technologies into existing and developing aircraft munitions and fuzes and supports strategic planning to achieve compliance of AF munitions with Department of Defense insensitive munitions (IM) standards 655361: The Stores-Aircraft Interface project is home to the Universal Armament Interface (UAI). UAI is the Air Force's common standard aircraft/weapon interface and is an acquisition requirement, to be used by all weapons and combat aircraft as practicable. The UAI program continues development and maintenance of the standardized interface including mission planning components. Users include Air Force, Army, and Navy customers. The UAI program office is also responsible for development, enhancement, and maintenance of the standard to support coalition, allied, and joint interoperability efforts for weapons-platform interface. These responsibilities include acquisition, upgrade, repair and provision of UAI certification tools, and implementation support to US Air Force, Army, Navy and allied aircraft and weapons systems. UAI provides cost/schedule savings over traditional integration efforts. This is accomplished by enabling integration of weapons independent of aircraft Operational Flight Programs (OFP) cycles. UAI incorporates complex info such as: power management, target info, waypoints, flight/trajectory profile, fusing, launch parameters, verification of data sent/received, sensor info, and propulsion profiles. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605831F. In FY22 0.186M was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY23 0.240M is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element. 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, 2023
- Source ID
- 0604602F_5_3600_PB_2023
- Change Summary Explanation
- The FY2022 President's Budget submittal did not reflect FY2023 through FY2026 funding. Therefore, an explanation of the change between the two budget positions for FY2023 cannot be made in a relevant manner. $2M below-threshold-reprogramming to Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat System (PE 0604327F)
- Service Agency Name
- Air Force
Entities
Organizations
- United States Air Force
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