Armament Subsystems
Abstract
This program provides a responsive design and development engineering infrastructure to address emerging issues and technology insertion/technology application on legacy systems, and supports analysis to develop new capability systems, improve legacy systems, or determine feasibility of utilizing prototypes with advanced technology on fielded systems. Efforts will identify methods to improve system performance, develop potential future designs, mitigate evolving threats, reduce life cycle costs, develop/expand modeling/simulation and experimental platforms for weapon qualification activities, improve safety, and ensure both viability and durability of tactical missile systems. Results enable highly informed decisions on acquisition initiatives to develop, refine, and rapidly integrate emerging technologies into new weapons concepts or existing aircraft munitions which include, but are not limited to, multi-role missile development, advanced long-range weapon capabilities, advanced propulsion systems technologies, non-kinetic and directed energy technologies, warheads, fuzes, and tailkits to address warfighter, Air Staff and OSD initiatives and strategies. In order to accomplish the above objectives, this program may accomplish pre-acquisition planning and systems engineering, risk reducing prototype missile design work, aircraft integration, prototype ground & flight tests, pre-planning and execution of Joint Capability Technology Demonstrations (JCTD), development and prototyping of threat emulations, simulations, presentation of evolving threat scenarios, target area environments to prepare for emerging weapons development activities, and program management support. Finally, this program also conducts high fidelity Modeling, Simulation and Analysis (MS&A) to support the development, testing and evaluating of future concept and legacy weapons. The MS&A work includes physics-level, engineering-level, and engagement/mission-level modeling, simulation and analysis. The FY 2022 funding request was reduced by $1.315 million to account for the availability of prior year execution balances. This program element may include necessary emergent or unanticipated civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver Future Advanced Weapon Systems capabilities for emergent or unanticipated weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605831F. This program is in Budget Activity 5, System Development and Demonstration (SDD) because it has passed Milestone B approval and is conducting engineering and manufacturing development tasks aimed at meeting validated requirements prior to full rate production.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- 653133_0604200F_5_3600_PB_2022
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