Joint DOD/DOE Munitions

Abstract

The Joint Munitions Program (JMP) seeks to develop technological advances in several munitions subject areas aligned with key objectives of the National Defense Strategy (NDS), namely to build a more lethal force by increasing the lethality of munitions while preparing for a sustained investment in conventional munitions technology. These include: 1) improved modeling and simulation tools for munitions and system design and evaluation, including evaluation of lethality, vulnerability and the design of energetic materials (EM), 2) novel experimental techniques and material property databases to support modeling and simulation, 3) higher power and more thermally stable explosives, 4) miniaturized, lower-cost, and higher reliability fuzes, initiators, power systems, and sensors, 5) design tools to enable development of higher performance warheads and weapons, such as penetrators, that are hardened against high impact loads, and 6) tools to assess the health and reliability of the munitions stockpile. The supporting experimental research requires the development of new technologies related to the synthesis, processing, formulation, and characterization of advanced munition materials, components, and systems. This involves energetic material research, new fuzing concepts, dynamic testing of munition materials, and advanced characterization including high-rate in-situ diagnostics. The JMP projects are divided into five technical focus areas: 1) Computational Mechanics and Material Modeling, 2) Energetic Materials, 3) Initiators, Fuzes, and Sensors, 4) Warhead and Penetration Technology, and 5) Munitions Lifecycle Technologies. Each of the 30 projects has a detailed five year plan with objectives, tasks, deliverables and milestones that is approved annually by a group of 20-plus SES members from the DoD munitions laboratories.

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Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2021
Source ID
225_0603225D8Z_3_0400_PB_2021

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  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
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