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PE 0604802A: Weapons and Munitions - Eng Dev
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Exhibit R-2, RDT&E Budget Item Justification: PB2021Army
Date: February 2020
Appropriation/Budget Activity
2040: Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Army / BA 5: System
Development & Demonstration (SDD)
R-1 Program Element (Number/Name)
PE 0604802A / Weapons and Munitions - Eng Dev
Project EL9, Ammunition Logistics Prototyping: The Ammunition Logistics Prototyping Project supports the future force by improving the distribution, management,
reliability and survivability of ammunition through the advanced development, integration, and demonstration of logistics system enablers. These enablers will improve
the efficiency and effectiveness of ammunition operations, to include retrograde, while reducing the logistics footprint on the battlefield. Technology areas addressed
include handling, distribution, and management (strategic and tactical), prognostics, diagnostics, and asset visibility, explosives safety, and adaptive and environmentally
friendly packaging and palletization. The efficient deployment and sustainment of reliable ammunition is vital to success on the battlefield. This Project enhances the
operational effectiveness of the ammunition logistics system to ensure the distribution of reliable ammunition to the warfighter. FY 2021 funding will be used to continue
integrating the munitions health monitoring system with additional ammunition items, improve health monitoring survivability, and conduct qualification tests and continue
to integrate passive time/temperature exposure sensors with additional ammunition items and conduct qualification testing.
Project EP2, Shoulder-Launched Munitions: The Individual Assault Munition (IAM) will be a lightweight Shoulder Launched Munition (SLM) capability for combat units
at the individual Soldier level. As an improvement over existing Shoulder Launched Munitions, the solution will fit within the Soldier Lethality Modernization Priority, by
reducing Soldier load, while providing tactical innovation capable of extending overmatch against near-peer adversaries in a joint, multi-domain, high-intensity conflict.
The IAM will allow Soldiers to conduct Urban Operations with an ability to defeat targets in an open space or in defilade at extended ranges. It will also allow Soldiers
to defeat adversaries protected by field expedient structures and light armored vehicles. This solution will be effective day or night with the ability to safely engage
targets from within enclosures using single hearing protection, increasing Soldier survivability. This solution will combine the capabilities of the existing Bunker Defeat
Munition (BDM) and the AT4 Confined Space - Reduced Sensitivity (AT4CS-RS), which will allow for reduced Soldier load and training complexity, as well as reducing
the logistics burden for Light Infantry, Combat Engineers, and Special Operations Forces. Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 funding will provide the Army the opportunity to evaluate
various developmental munitions to achieve emerging increased capability as an Individual Assault Munition. The Individual Assault Munition Capabilities Development
Document (CDD) was approved on 11 March 2016. FY 2021 funding will support the developmental shoulder-launched munition build and hardware testing to ensure
the soldier has increased capabilities to engage targets at close and extended ranges, in the open, in defilade, behind field expedient structures.
Project EP3, Reduced Range Ammunition - Small Caliber: The small caliber Reduced Range Ammunition (RRA) Project is a critical technology development in response
to the 7.62 millimeter (mm) and .50 caliber Capabilities Development Documents (CDD). The overall objective of RRA is to provide training ammunition suitable for
use on military installations with Surface Danger Zone (SDZ) restrictions. The relatively long maximum range of the 7.62mm and .50 caliber service ammunition poses
challenges on training ranges in range restricted areas. RRA will mitigate a training gap on installations by providing a materiel solution that meets training needs
while shortening and condensing the SDZ. This will allow soldiers to train with 7.62mm and .50 caliber weapons on restricted ranges. The RRA cartridge design will
be compatible with all Army 7.62mm and .50 caliber weapons, but specifically optimized to work in the M240 and M2 Machine Guns. Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 funding
supports continuing Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) efforts, performing a Technical Readiness Review (TRR), conducting Production Qualification
Testing (PQT), and performing activities to prepare for ammunition production transition to the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant (LCAAP) on the 7.62mm variant. FY
2021 also includes continuing the EMD effort, conducting a Critical Design Review (CDR), performing a User Evaluation / Soldier Touch Point (STP), and performing
PQT on the 50 caliber variant. FY 2021 includes continuing activities to evaluate RRA ammunition prototypes and designs for the Next Generation Squad Weapon
(NGSW) systems.
Project EP4, One-Way Luminescence for Small Caliber Ammo: The One Way Luminescence (OWL) project is a critical technology development in response to the 7.62
millimeter (mm) and 5.56mm Families of Ammunition Capabilities Development Documents (CDD) and .50 Caliber Munitions CDD. Current small caliber ammunition
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