Submunitions
Abstract
Project Chicken Little provides best value research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) support to developmental smart munitions and related emerging weapons technologies employed against a wide variety of vehicle targets, theater air defense units, and other foreign ground-based systems. Combat systems exhibit physical characteristics (i.e., signatures), as well as certain vulnerabilities, which may be exploited by smart weapons in order to eliminate or incapacitate these systems. Chicken Little collects physical and functional attributes of actual foreign threat systems to construct high-fidelity models for use in vulnerability assessments (i.e. evaluating the effectiveness of munitions against system vulnerabilities). Chicken Little also collects signature data with a variety of sensors on foreign targets, (maintained to be signature representative), both with and without the presence of countermeasures or camouflage; the resulting highly reliable, realistic performance data is used to support smart munitions development by defining lethality and sensor requirements to aid in acquisition decision points. The project serves as a major focal point for joint target signature collection and dissemination for development and exploitation purposes. Customers include: the major Defense and Service Intelligence Centers, all Services, the Joint Technical Coordinating Group (JTCG) who develop the Joint Munitions Effectiveness Manuals (JMEMs), Combatant Commands, US Air Force Weapons School curriculum support, and others. Current projects include, but not limited to: target signature exploitation, target geometric modeling (for identifying vulnerabilities), improving air capabilities against protected structures (specifically hard and deeply buried targets), and testing of multiple seekers and sensors against realistic targets in various environments. This program is funded in BA5 - System Development and Demonstration (SDD) because it supports development programs prior to full rate production decision.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 0604604F_5_3600_PB_2011
- Change Summary Explanation
- The FY 2010 President's Budget submittal did not reflect FY 2011 through FY 2015 funding. Therefore, explanation of changes between the two budget positions cannot be made in a relevant manner.
- Service Agency Name
- Air Force
Entities
Organizations
- United States Air Force
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