Enhanced Munitions Advanced Technology
Abstract
The Enhanced Munitions Advanced Technology effort will demonstrate advanced technologies and perform associated research that will improve the performance, range, and lethality of existing and future weapons systems. This effort will take promising technologies demonstrated at the laboratory scale and transition them into demonstration programs utilizing broadly applicable munitions in the concept and development stages. Matured and demonstrated Enhanced Munitions technology can be transitioned, thereby decreasing the Program Executive Office’s (PEO) program costs and schedule risk, facilitating spin-offs to other munitions within their portfolios. Technologies demonstrated seek to improve the performance, lethality, and range of weapons to ensure the U.S. is not outgunned and outranged on the battlefield of the future. This program exploits developments in machine learning, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and advanced material technologies and applies them to enable next generation kinetic weapons capabilities in the areas of advanced propulsion, warhead effects, enabling fuze technologies, and pioneering targeting technologies with a specific focus on enhancing kinetic weapons lethality, range and resultant effects. The program informs technology investments with broad applicability across across the Department. Investments are informed by threat-opportunity based analyses that focus on developing weapons systems for technological dominance to enable military objectives in Joint Force campaign scenarios. Technology roadmaps for munition technical areas will guide investments consistent with the DoD National Defense Strategy and inform Service technology investments. The program will establish a Department-wide/Industry/Academia Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) collaboration that mitigates stakeholder identified deficiencies to coordinate and accelerate munitions technology development, demonstration, and transition.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- 077_0603000D8Z_3_0400_PB_2024
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