Joint Standoff Weapon Systems

Abstract

The Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) is an air-to-ground weapon designed to attack a variety of targets during day, night, and adverse weather conditions. JSOW will enhance aircraft survivability as compared to current interdiction weapon systems by providing the capability for launch aircraft to standoff outside the range of most target area surface-to-air threat systems. The JSOW launch-and-leave capability will allow several target kills per aircraft sortie. The JSOW program first developed a baseline weapon for use against fixed area targets. JSOW is a Navy led joint Navy/Air Force program. JSOW utilizes a "common truck" for both AGM-154A and AGM-154C variants. Through adherence to international standards for weapons interfaces, weight, and dimension considerations, JSOW is compatible with Air Force and North Atlantic Treaty Organization aircraft. The JSOW Baseline (AGM-154A) variant includes a kinematically efficient airframe, an integrated Inertial/Global Positioning System navigation capability, and a BLU-97/B payload. This weapon was designed up front for pre-planned product improvements. The JSOW BLU-108 (AGM-154B) variant incorporates the sensor fuze weapon submunition (BLU-108) into the baseline vehicle. The JSOW Unitary (AGM-154C) variant has a terminal seeker, autonomous target acquisition capability, and a broach lethal package to enable the attack of blast/fragmentation and penetration type targets. The JSOW Unitary provides increased accuracy and lethality and the capability for aimpoint selection. Operational Testing of the JSOW-C was successfully completed in December 2004. Approval for Milestone-III/Full Rate Production was granted on 20 December 2004. JSOW-C Initial Operational Capability was achieved in February 2005. FY 2015-2017 includes funding for development, integration, qualification, follow-on developmental and operational test and evaluation of a Network Enabled Weapon moving maritime target capability into the JSOW Unitary weapon (AGM-154C-1). The AGM-154C-1 capability will enable the weapon to be integrated with the network and attack sea moving maritime targets via real-time pre-and post-launch targeting updates. JSOW will continue to conduct analysis and development of solutions to system integration challenges, and continual enhancement of warfighter effectiveness in the employment of the JSOW weapon system. JSOW funding will provide enhancements to include the analysis of extended range and future improvements to the JSOW-C configuration to improve capability. In addition, FY 2015-2017 includes funding to integrate new functionality of the Common Unique Planning Component into the joint mission planning systems and precision guided munitions planning system. In FY 2016, the program will transition to software improvement/integration and interoperability following the completion of efforts associated with Operational Testing in 2nd Qtr FY 2016. This program is funded under SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION because it includes those projects that have passed Milestone B approval and are conducting engineering and manufacturing development tasks aimed at meeting validated requirement prior to full-rate production decision.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2017
• Source ID: 0604727N_5_1319_PB_2017
• Change Summary Explanation: Decrease in Joint Standoff Weapons Systems by $0.017M as required for the Department of the Navy to comply with the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. Schedule: OT-IIIB end date moved from 4QFY15 to 1QFY16 to reflect testing schedule delays. OT Final Report moved from 1QFY16 to 2QFY16 to reflect testing schedule delays. FRP11 award was changed from 2QFY15 to 4QFY15. Production shutdown activities added starting in 2QFY16. FRP-09 deliveries end date moved from 3QFY15 to 3QFY16 to reflect updated schedule due to LAT failure. FRP-10 deliveries moved from 4QFY15-4QFY16 to 2QFY16-4QFY16 to reflect updated schedule due to FRP09 delay. Technical: N/A
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Air Force
• Aircrafts
• Contracts
• Cost Analysis
• Costs
• Demonstrations
• Engineering
• Global Positioning Systems
• Interoperability
• Moving Targets
• Precision-Guided Munitions
• Satellite Guided Weapons
• Targets
• Test And Evaluation
• Weapon Systems
• Weapons

Readers

• Aerospace Engineering
• Munitions and Ordnance Engineering

Technology Areas

• Space