Enhanced Munitions Advanced Technology
Abstract
The Enhanced Munitions Advanced Technology effort will mature and demonstrate advanced technologies that can improve the performance, range, and lethality of existing and future weapons systems to inform requirements. This effort will take promising technologies demonstrated at the laboratory scale and mature them into demonstration programs with a focus on operationally relevant key munitions. Enhanced Munitions technologies that are matured and demonstrated at the Technology Readiness Level – 5 inform service requirements and transition into operational use, thereby decreasing the Program Executive Office’s (PEO) program costs and risk. In FY 2025, the project will focus on developing critical munitions technologies such as advanced materials and designs, fuzing, power sources, seeker technologies, and counter countermeasure technologies that, when combined with advanced energetics, provide significant performance enhancements in range, speed, and target damage effects. This project applies machine learning, artificial intelligence, and advanced material technologies to enable next-generation kinetic weapons capabilities, including advances in propulsion, warhead effects, fuze technologies, and targeting technologies. In FY 2025, the Munitions Advanced Technology project continues to address the critical munitions technologies outside of advanced energetics that enable the Energetics Advanced Technology investments to be effectively incorporated into munitions systems. Increases in weapon range and run time require higher energy density munitions power sources. Lethality increases are not only dependent on advanced energetics, but also optimized munitions placement and burst point optimization.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- 077_0603000D8Z_3_0400_PB_2025
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