Advanced Energetics & Counter WMD Weapons

Abstract

The Advanced Energetics & Counter WMD Weapons project provides applied research supporting defeat of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) targets (including facilities with biological and chemical agents) while minimizing collateral damage and release of those agents when using air, land and sea assets brought to the theater by the warfighters. The effort also focuses on accelerating the development of advanced energetics technology (highly novel chemical and non-chemical energy systems), integrating disruptive payloads and technologies into existing and next generation weapon systems, developing a Hard and Deeply Buried Target (HDBT) bunker buster capability that produces a threshold of five-fold in defeat capability over current bunker buster capability, ten-fold over current capability by FY 2013 and providing residual and transition support of these products. These objectives will be accomplished by a combination of developing and/or maturing technologies, weapon systems, weapon concepts and methods. Supported products are: (1) counter force weapons, fuzing technology, and robotics; (2) counter force agents and methods; and (3) disruptive payloads and delivery systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2011
Source ID
RG_0602718BR_2_0400_PB_2011

Tags

Readers

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs

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