Ammunition Logistics Prototyping

Abstract

This Project supports the future force by improving the distribution, management, reliability and survivability of ammunition through the advanced development, integration, and demonstration of logistics system enablers. These enablers will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of ammunition operations, to include retrograde, while reducing the logistics footprint on the battlefield. Technology areas addressed include handling, distribution, and management (strategic and tactical), prognostics, diagnostics, and asset visibility, explosives safety, and adaptive and environmentally friendly packaging and palletization. The efficient deployment and sustainment of reliable ammunition is vital to success on the battlefield. This Project enhances the operational effectiveness of the ammunition logistics system to ensure the distribution of reliable ammunition to the warfighter. Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 funding will be used to reduce device cost and establish an alternate source for monitoring devices as well as verifying that issues found during testing have been resolved. FY 2021 funding will also be used to demonstrate a suite of monitoring technologies, which will be used for assessing munitions reliability. All research and development initiatives will be supporting the cross functional teams and the multi domain operations modernization objectives through deployment of prototypes for user evaluation.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2021
• Source ID: EC3_0603639A_4_2040_PB_2021

Tags

Readers

• Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Munitions and Ordnance Engineering