Enabling Fuze Technology
Abstract
Enabling Fuze Technology focuses on the following areas: - Extreme Environmental Survivable Fuzing: Challenges are addressed with improved modeling and simulation (M&S) capabilities to provide the computational tools necessary to understand extreme weapon environments, test equipment, instrumentation, and analysis techniques that provide basic phenomenology and understanding of the fuze environment, and survivable fuze components developed to increase the effectiveness of hypersonic munitions by improving the prediction tools and testing methodologies to evaluate the survivability and functionality of future fuzes. Development of these technologies will enable next generation hypersonic weapon fuzes to survive and function. - Tailorable Effects Fuzing and Warhead Initiation: Develops technologies for tailorable effects weapons that encompass the ability to selectively vary the output of the weapon and the ability to generate selectable effects, initiation and multi-point technologies, electronic safe and arm based multi-point initiators, and embedded fuzing for high speed/penetrating weapons. - High Reliability Safe and Arm Technology: Develops highly reliable common fuzing architectures, miniature/high efficiency munitions power sources, and Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) reduction features. - Target Detection and Burst Point Control: Develops sensing and algorithm foundational technologies for precision target detection while meeting or exceeding the performance of existing technologies in order to operate in contested and high speed weapon environments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2023
- Source ID
- cf230df3dd9163dd9f3a2dc9bd007434