FY96 Advanced Weapons Technology Area Plan.

Abstract

The Phillips Laboratory (PL) develops and transitions war-fighting technologies in three primary areas: space and missile systems, geophysics, and advanced weapons. This Technology Area Plan (TAP) addresses the third of these three responsibilities, Advanced Weapons. This Technology Area encompasses the development, demonstration, and transition of advanced weapons; the determination of the susceptibility of USAF systems to similar foreign threats; and the development of protection technology to enhance the survivability of USAF systems. On-going and planned R&D will lead to advanced weapon systems using high energy lasers, high power microwaves, high energy plasmas, and related capabilities such as high resolution optical imaging. Efforts in survivability assessment and protection technology involve the development of both hardening technology and the criteria for protecting USAF systems against directed energy weapons, space debris, and natural and enhanced space radiation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA349414

Entities

Organizations

  • Air Force Materiel Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Chemical Oxygen Iodine Lasers
  • Control Systems
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • High Power Microwaves
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Laser Applications
  • Laser Beams
  • Laser Diodes
  • Lasers
  • Military Applications
  • Nonlinear Optics
  • Space Debris
  • Space Objects
  • Weapons Effects

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Space