
UNCLASSIFIED
PE 0604602F: Armament/Ordnance Development
UNCLASSIFIED
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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 5: System
Development & Demonstration (SDD)
R-1 Program Element (Number/Name)
PE 0604602F / Armament/Ordnance Development
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
- 44.788 28.043 23.076 0.000 23.076 9.183 6.705 6.825 6.950 Continuing Continuing
653133: Bombs & Fuzes
- 39.742 19.054 18.011 0.000 18.011 4.010 1.440 1.466 1.492 Continuing Continuing
655361: Stores-Aircraft Interface
- 5.046 8.989 5.065 0.000 5.065 5.173 5.265 5.359 5.458 Continuing Continuing
A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification
The Armament Ordnance Development program provides for the initial and continuing development of weapons, munitions, and munitions equipment for aircraft
integration, support, and operational use. This program develops, characterizes, and improves current, future, and legacy munitions, ammunitions, and subsystems.
653133: The Bombs & Fuzes project improves conventional weapons/munitions (kinetic and non-kinetic), fuzes, and height-of-burst sensors (HOBS), and develops and
integrates complementary position, navigation, and timing (PNT) capabilities (i.e. GPS, non-GPS, optical, passive, active, etc.). This project also provides an opportunity
to quickly insert emerging technologies into existing and developing aircraft munitions and fuzes. Bombs & Fuzes provides research, development, and testing of
conventional warheads, fuzing, HOBS modifications, and anti-personnel anti-materiel (APAM) weapons to improve lethality against area, mobile, hard and deeply buried,
and fixed targets. This project provides for the development and testing necessary to provide a suitable manufacturing base of conventional warheads, fuzes, HOBS,
and munitions materiel handling equipment (MMHE).
655361: The Stores-Aircraft Interface project is home to the Universal Armament Interface (UAI). UAI is the Air Force's common standard aircraft/weapon interface
and is an acquisition requirement, to be used by all weapons and combat aircraft as practicable. The UAI program continues development and maintenance of the
standardized interface including mission planning components. Users include Army and Navy customers. The UAI program office is also responsible for development,
enhancement, and maintenance of the standard to support coalition, allied, and joint interoperability efforts for weapons-platform interface. These responsibilities include
acquisition, upgrade, repair and provision of UAI certification tools, and implementation support to US Air Force, Army, Navy and allied aircraft and weapons systems.
UAI provides cost/schedule savings over traditional integration efforts. This is accomplished by enabling integration of weapons independent of aircraft Operational Flight
Programs (OFP) cycles.
This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver Armament/Ordnance Development weapon system
capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in Program Elements 0605831F.
This program is in Budget Activity 5, System Development and Demonstration (SDD) because it has passed Milestone B approval and is conducting engineering and
manufacturing development tasks aimed at meeting validated requirements prior to full rate production.
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