Joint Air-to-ground Missile (JAGM)

Abstract

The Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) is an air-launched missile system that will utilize dual-mode seeker technology providing advanced line-of-sight and beyond-line-of-sight capabilities, including precision point and fire-and-forget seeker targeting and increased lethality against soft, hardened, moving, stationary, land, maritime threats. JAGM will additionally provide robust capability in adverse weather day or night and in obscured/countermeasure environments. The JAGM Increment 1 system will replace aviation-launched; tube-launched, optically-tracked, wire-guided, and Helicopter Launched Fire-&-Forget Missile System (HELLFIRE). JAGM is an Army-led joint program that addresses rotary wing, fixed wing, and unmanned aerial vehicle requirements. The Department of Navy threshold platform is the AH-1Z. The JAGM system includes missile, trainers, container, support equipment and software modifications to the M-299 launcher. The JAGM program is part of the Navy's Integrated Fire Control (IFC) approach to address advanced threat capabilities in the Anti-Access/Area-Denial (A2AD) environment. IFC solutions enable individual system capabilities to be leveraged across an effects chain, placing the full spectrum of tactical capability in the hands of the warfighter. IFC solutions that push engagement distances beyond the launch platform's radar horizon and allows the United States Navy to operate in, and control, contested battle space in littoral waters and A2/AD environments are increasingly critical as more and more scenarios require compressed and coordinated fire control timelines. JUSTIFICATION FOR BUDGET ACTIVITY: 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.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2018
Source ID
0605450N_5_1319_PB_2018
Change Summary Explanation
The FY 2018 funding request was reduced by $0.990 million to account for the availability of prior year execution balances. Schedule: The JAGM acquisition milestones were changed as a result of production delays affecting the test asset deliveries. Milestone C was changed from 4Q FY2017 to 3Q FY2018. FRP was changed from 3Q FY2019 to 4Q FY2019, and IOC was changed from 4Q FY2019 to 2Q FY2020. In concurrence, there were changes to the test and evaluation and production milestones to align with the revised Milestone C and FRP dates.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Launched
  • Aircrafts
  • Contracts
  • Dual Mode
  • Engineering
  • Fire And Forget Weapons
  • Launchers
  • Line Of Sight
  • Manufacturing
  • Software Development
  • Software Testing
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Tube Launched
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Wire Guidance

Readers

  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Space
  • Space - Satellites

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