Armament Subsystems

Abstract

This program enables Air Force level capability planning activities by supporting requirements generation and executing requirements/cost tradespace analysis. These classified and unclassified activities provide studies or responsive design and development engineering infrastructure to address emerging gaps and technology insertion/technology needs on legacy systems, and supports analysis to develop new capability systems, or determine feasibility by conducting prototypes with advanced technology. In addition, activities explore new concept development and analysis in response to stakeholder engagements, technology transitions, experimentation, fieldable demonstrations, and the delivery of quick reaction solutions. 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, identify technology gaps, and ensure both viability and durability of future tactical weapon acquisition programs. 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. This program transitions innovative ideas and technologies to the warfighter via the execution of experimentation campaigns, flight demonstrations and rapid response technology deliveries. This program implements the Digital Acquisition tenants of Open, Agile, and Digital in support of all Air Force weapons. Conduct 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. 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, maintenance of appropriate IT and security constructs and program management support. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605831F. In FY21 $0 was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY22 $0 is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element. 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, 2023
• Source ID: 653133_0604200F_5_3600_PB_2023

Tags

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Munitions and Ordnance Engineering

Technology Areas

• Directed Energy