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PE 0604327F: Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat Sys...
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Exhibit R-2, RDT&E Budget Item Justification: PB2021Air Force
Date: February 2020
Appropriation/Budget Activity
3600: Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Air Force / BA 4: Advanced
Component Development & Prototypes (ACD&P)
R-1 Program Element (Number/Name)
PE 0604327F / Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat System (HDBTDS) Program
COST ($ in Millions)
Prior
Years FY 2019 FY 2020
FY 2021
Base
FY 2021
OCO
FY 2021
Total FY 2022 FY 2023 FY 2024 FY 2025
Cost To
Complete
Total
Cost
Total Program Element
0.000 41.259 113.121 52.921 0.000 52.921 16.974 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 224.275
645341: Direct Strike Penetrator
Systems
0.000 41.259 113.121 52.921 0.000 52.921 16.974 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 224.275
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A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification
The Direct Strike Penetrator Systems program develops and modifies a family of advanced precision-guided penetrator munitions to include evaluation of integrated
technologies for the development/integration of advanced position, navigation, and timing (PNT) capabilities (i.e., Global Positioning System (GPS), non-GPS, optical,
passive, active, etc.) and smart fuze systems, and all penetrator components, that will provide the Air Force with improved ability to attack Hard and Deeply Buried
Targets (HDBT), such as bunker and tunnel facilities, using air-to-surface conventional munitions. Systems developed include, but are not limited to Massive Ordnance
Penetrator (MOP), Advanced 5,000-lb Penetrator Weapon System (A5K), and Section 804 Rapid Prototype/Rapid Fielding activities. Systems developed will be
integrated onto current and future platforms to reduce the number of weapons required to hold HDBTs at risk and will result in more targets engaged per mission
flown. Direct Strike Penetrators will provide critical global strike capability not met by inventory conventional weapons and will hold at risk the best protected high value
assets essential to an enemy's war fighting ability. The project also provides an opportunity to quickly insert emerging technologies into existing and developing aircraft
munitions and fuzes.
A Hard Target Munitions (HTM) Analysis-of-Alternatives (AoA) was conducted in 2014 to determine the best weapons and/or development efforts for addressing the
HDBT mission area. The HTM AoA determined that it was necessary to develop a family of HTMs in order to apply effects to the entire range of HDBT sets. The Air
Force is using the AoA to develop, produce and modify HDBT weapons identified as the most effective and affordable. Modeling and simulation is used to assess and
characterize current inventory and, to drive design and explore the utility of new classes of penetrator munitions.
This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver Direct Strike Penetrator Systems and M-code weapon
system capabilities. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605831F.
This requirement supports performance of a full financial audit as required by title 10 U.S.C. Chapter 9A, Sec 240-D.
This effort is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P), because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies,
representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.
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