Precision Strike Weapons Development Program

Abstract

Initial and continuing development of strike weapons consisting of armament, munitions, and weapon subsystems to allow for horizontal integration among current and future weapon system capabilities to provide enhanced anti-surface and land strike capabilities in a demanding Anti-Access Area-Denial environment. This program provides for the development of weapon and weapon system technologies to address future requirements for enhanced and alternative weapon system capability requirements that include selectable output weapons, low collateral damage weapons, precision lethality weapons, area weapons, alternative warhead technology, Insensitive Munitions (IM), scaled munitions, Department of Defense (DoD) fuzing systems, sensors, extended range weapons, precision guided training rounds, aerial refueling, fuel containment, and technologies associated with cartridge actuated devices/propellant actuated devices. PROJ 3378: Next Generation Strike Weapon (NGSW) Family of Systems (FoS) based on the NGLAW Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) completed with results briefed out to OSD. NGSW FoS more accurately reflects the surface/submarine capabilities for land-attack and maritime strike that the AoA results identified for the most capable and economic solutions fielding incrementally between 2020 and 2032. NGSW FoS Increments I and II will leverage mature as well as emerging technologies vice developing a single weapon. NGSW funding will maintain the security environment (enclave), facility, and study team to enable continuing analysis efforts across the FoS. The NGSW enclave ensures the Navy is able to maintain the most up to date modeled threats and validate the effectiveness of current US weapons, offensive and defensive, as well as future systems and concepts developed by industry and other DoD organizations. Maintaining this capability allows expedited analysis of systems and fully informed investment decisions. PROJ 3409: Development and fielding of the Advanced Aerial Refueling Store (AARS). The AARS effort is the result of an Operation Navy (OPNAV) Future Readiness Initiative (FRI) award. The AARS will package new technologies into this upgraded Aerial Refueling Store (ARS) to support both manned and unmanned (automated) aerial refueling from platforms such as F/A-18 and MQ-25. In doing so, the AARS will facilitate tanking operations to both manned and unmanned receivers and improve safety of flight by stabilizing the aerial refueling drogue and incorporating better health and diagnostics. These improvements will be accomplished by providing updated store health message content and additional health monitoring Built-In Tests (BITS) that will be sent over the 1553 data-bus. The AARS will also add receiver and drogue position data for situational awareness and support autonomous receiver engagements of unmanned systems. This in turn will increase reliability and decrease aerial refueling mishaps, providing a significant safety and readiness improvement when compared with the current ARS. PROJ 3411: Cartridge Actuated Device / Propellant Actuated Device (CAD/PAD) Digital Twin Modeling to develop and validate models and algorithms for the Department of the Navy (DoN). The development effort is specific to Navy Air Crew Common Ejection Seats (NACES). These models will also be used to support initial service life decisions, service life extension decisions, and address obsolescence. PROJ 3467: This project will design, develop, produce and deploy a Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM-N). SLCM-N is scoped to deliver an integrated flight system and to continue to advance SLCM-N capabilities to fully address requirements identified in the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review, SLCM-N Initial Capabilities Document, and examined in the Analysis of Alternatives to mitigate a lack of a sea based tactical nuclear based system. PROJ 9999: C762 Neutron radiography (N-ray) is a critical nondestructive inspection technique used to complement X-ray. N-ray and X-ray are used to detect defects and proper assembly of a variety of energetics, including Cartridge and Propellant Actuated Devices (CAD/PADs). The US Navy intends to continue to employ neutron radiographic inspection to support energetics programs for the foreseeable future. C880: SLCM-N This project will conduct system development and demonstration of nuclear-capable sea-launched cruise missile. JUSTIFICATION FOR BUDGET ACTIVITY: This program is funded under ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT AND PROTOTYPES because it includes all efforts necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative models or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2025
• Source ID: 0604659N_4_1319_PB_2025
• Change Summary Explanation: No significant changes in FY 2025 from previous President's Budget PROJ 3378: NGSW Removed NGSW FY 2022 Threat Update Added NGSW FY 2028 Threat Update Q1 2028-Q4 2028 NGSW Threat Updates Mission Modeling changed from Q1 2021-Q4 2027 to Q1 2022-Q4 2028 NGSW Threat Updates Modeling Updates changed from Q1 2021-Q4 2027 to Q1 2022-Q4 2028 Removed Technology Investment Enablers for INC I / INC II Capabilities Q4 2021-Q4 2021 Study Opportunity changed from Q1 2021-Q42027 to Q1 2022-Q4 2028 Removed Weapon/Platform Tradespace Analysis Q1 2021-Q4 2021 Removed NGSW AoA Update Removed FY 2022 Security and HW Update Removed FY 2022 Info Update FY 2023 Security and HW Update changed from Q2 2023-Q2 2023 to Q2 2023-Q3 2023 FY 2023 Info Update changed from Q3 2023-Q3 2023 to Q3 2023-Q4 2023 FY 2024 Security and HW Update Q2 2024-Q2 2024 to Q2 2024-Q3 2024 FY 2024 Info Update Q3 2024-Q3 2024 to Q3 2024-Q4 2024 FY 2025 Security and HW Update Q2 2025-Q2 2025 to Q2 2025 Q3 2025 FY 2025 Info Update Q3 2025-Q3 2025 to Q3 2025-Q4 2025 FY 2026 Security and HW Update Q2 2026-Q2 2026 to Q2 2026-Q3 2026 FY 2026 Info Update Q3 2026-Q3 2026 to Q3 2026 Q4 2026 FY 2027 Security and HW Update Q2 2027-Q2 2027 to Q2 2027-Q3 2027 FY 2027 Info Update Q3 2027-Q3 2027 to Q3 2027-Q4 2027 Added FY 2028 Security and HW Update Q2 2028-Q3 2028 Added FY 2028 Info Update Q3 2028-Q4 2028 PROJ 3409: $2.230 million added to FY 2025 ($11.317 million across FYDP) for AARS development wholeness and support development of future modifications to Carrier Airwing ARS for MQ-25 and the Airwing of The Future (AWOTF) including improving optical automated systems for manned/unmanned CVW-based air to air refueling and developing optical/visual reference systems for unmanned-to-unmanned CVW-based air to air refueling.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Readers

• Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
• Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy