Family of Artillery Munitions (FAM)
Abstract
FAM - Efforts include acquisition planning for future munitions, replacement of existing stockpiles, and providing technologically enhanced artillery munitions in order to mitigate/fill capability gaps in range, accuracy, and lethality and reduce undue logistical burden. Additionally, the program office addresses Weapon System Explosives Safety Review Board (WSESRB) requirements for naval transportation issues for all artillery projectiles, propellants, and fuzes. The M483A1 and M864 155mm DPICM munitions will no longer be authorized for use after 2018 because they fail to meet the 1 percent Unexploded Ordinance (UXO) criteria established by the Department of Defense Policy memorandum dated 19 June 2008 (DoD Policy on Cluster Munitions and Unintended Harm to Civilians). The Marine Corps is interested in solutions that are effective against the same target sets the M483A1 and M864 munitions are designed to engage, this includes: individual area targets dispersed over a defined area, targets whose precise locations are not known, time-sensitive or moving targets, and massed formations of enemy forces. Furthermore, in order to review possible joint development with partner nations the USMC is interested in options compliant with DoD policy and the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) treaty. Solutions which are compliant to DoD Policy on Cluster Munitions but not the CCM treaty are also of interest.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- a84fc93841498f74b1607261a9ff3610