Strike Weapons Technology Demonstrations

Abstract

The Precision Strike Weapons Development program provides for initial and continuing development of strike weapons consisting of armament, munitions, and weapon subsystems to allow for the horizontal integration among current and future weapon system capabilities to include Anti-Surface Warfare (ASuW) and the weaponization of Unmanned Aerial Systems. This program will also provide the Navy with the opportunity to improve upon the accuracy, lethality, interoperability, and overall effectiveness of current and future precision strike weapons. The Strike Weapons Technology Demonstrations project unit currently consists of the Joint Capability Technology Demonstrations (JCTD) effort. Overall intent of the JCTD is to demonstrate, operationally assess, rapidly deploy, and transition capability solutions and innovative concepts to address the joint, coalition and interagency operational gaps and shortfalls. The Combatant Commands drive JCTDs through their stated operational priorities and needs, which are applied to an agile acquisition process that yields results years ahead of traditional material development cycles. The JCTD will demonstrate robust, end-to-end kill chains to engage enemy surface combatants. Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms will include the USAF E-8 Joint Surveillance Targeting Attack Radar System (JSTARS) and the USN P-3 Littoral Surveillance Radar System (LSRS). The launch platform will be the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. Weapons will include the AGM-154C Joint Stand-off Weapon (JSOW-C-1), and the AGM-84K Stand-off Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response (SLAM-ER). In the case of the SLAM-ER, the FA-18 will translate ISR Link-16 targeting information and transmit that information to the SLAM-ER with J3.3/J3.5 messages via the AWW-13 pod. The focus will be on in-flight targeting messages going directly from the ISR platforms to the weapons themselves.

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Document Details

Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2012
Source ID
3215_0604659N_4_1319_PB_2012

Tags

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs

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