Assured Precision Weapons and Munitions

Abstract

The Assured Precision Weapons and Munitions (APWM) - FA5 Project is focused on advanced risk mitigation, technology integration, prototyping, and product support to identify, evaluate, mature, test, and demonstrate various assured precision prototype technologies in weapon and munitions components and subsystems within a complex system-of-systems (SoS) environment. The APWM Project reinforces the National Defense Strategy's major lines of effort through technology development and prototyping, which increases lethality and ensures future combat overmatch success of the Joint Force against peer/near-peer adversaries. This project also aims to improve program performance and affordability for multiple weapons and munitions Programs of Record (PoRs) via Joint Lethality Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) and Army M-Code Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinated efforts. The APWM Project directly supports top Army Modernization Priorities via the Assured-PNT (A-PNT) and Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF) Cross Functional Team (CFT) imperatives in support of the National Defense Strategy. Funding will support engagement by weapons and munitions PNT experts in the development, evaluation, and technology delivery activities of the Air Force's M-Code GPS, Army's PNT related programs, and A-PNT/Space CFT programs in support of LRPF and Counter Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) missions. Funding will also enable component and subsystem architecture input essential for Precision Weapons and Munitions (PW&M) operating in a Navigation Warfare (NavWar) SoS environment, Army M-Code GPS technology integration and evaluation, planning and evaluating next generation M-Code GPS to validate capability for future Joint precision munitions, and maturation of alternative PNT and NavWar related technologies and solutions to enable informed A-PNT related PoR milestone and Army cross-functional modernization decisions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2022
Source ID
FA5_0603639A_4_2040_PB_2022

Tags

Readers

  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.

Technology Areas

  • Space

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