Enhanced Munitions
Abstract
The enhanced munitions effort investigates and develops advanced energetics concepts and explosive and propellant materials with the potential to improve the performance, range, speed, and lethality of weapons. Technologies and concepts developed will have the potential to impact multiple munitions types with wide applicability to improve the performance, lethality, speed, and range of weapons to ensure the U.S. is not outgunned and outranged on the battlefield of the future. Through FY 2021, the Joint Enhanced Munitions Technology Program (JEMTP) investments focus on five Munition Areas: 1) High Performance Rocket Propulsion, 2) Minimum Signature Rocket Propulsion, 3) Area Effects Warheads, 4) Hard Target Effects Warheads, and 5) Gun Propulsion. Munition Area Technology Groups (MATG), under tri-service leadership, have developed technology roadmaps for each Munition Area which is used to guide investments based on goals consistent with the DoD National Defense Strategy. The improved performance technologies developed, alone or in combination, will be incorporated in hardware, simulating real-world munitions, to demonstrate their utility and feasibility as part of Technology Transition Agreements with Program Executive Offices (PEOs). In FY 2022, the Joint Fuze Technology Program (JFTP) and JEMTP will merge and the program scope will expand to exploit technology developments such as (hypersonics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, etc.) and accelerate their application to enable next generation kinetic weapons capabilities in the areas of energetic materials (EM), advanced propulsion (AP), warhead effects (WE), enabling fuze technologies (FT), and pioneering targeting technologies (TT) with a specific focus on enhancing kinetic weapons lethality, range and resultant effects. The program will retain tri-service leadership to inform technology investments accelerating development across the Department. Investments will be informed by a threat-opportunity based analysis that focuses on developing weapons systems that exploit technology dominance to ensure military objectives in Joint Force campaign scenarios. New technology roadmaps for munition technical areas will guide investments consistent with the DoD National Defense Strategy and inform Service technology investments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- 076_0602000D8Z_2_0400_PB_2022
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