Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW)

Abstract

The Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) project integrates Air Force and DARPA enabled system technologies into a prototype that will demonstrate the viability of this concept to be fielded as a long range prompt strike capability. ARRW will design, develop, manufacture, and test, a number of prototype vehicles to inform decisions concerning ARRW acquisition and production. Future hypersonics development will incubate and mature new technology, processes, and resources for the development and demonstration of hypersonic technology including, but not limited to, infrastructure advancements, digital engineering, open systems architecture, modeling and simulation, analytics, and high performance computing environments. Investing in hypersonics development will enable the collection of valuable data, building of capacity and capability, allowing hypersonic programs to leverage and build upon each other, and project the overall technology forward. In FY 2022, PE 0101101F, Project ARRW00/AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, efforts were transferred to PE 0604033F, Hypersonics Prototyping, Project 643882, Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, in order to mitigate the testing shortfall. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY 2022 $3.729 million was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, FY 2023 $4.332 million is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
• Source ID: 643882_0604033F_4_3600_PB_2024

Tags

Readers

• Aerospace Engineering.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Hypersonics