Operational Weaponeering and Analysis

The Operational Weaponeering and Analysis (OWA) project provides mission critical classified weapons' effectiveness analysis and Modeling and Simulation (M&S) tools in direct support of the Air Combat Command (ACC) Targeting mission. The M&S Targeting tool capabilities are designed to meet both Air Force (AF) Master Plan and DoW National Defense Strategy objectives and LOEs. The program is integrating ACC and AFRL MAJCOM goals to establish a Digital Engineering and Transformation path to create a ‘pipeline' of capabilities that will support weapon and target requirements integration from R&D to Operational Warfighting within ACC, Combatant Commands (CCMDs), and other DoW Intelligence Agencies. OWA provides mission critical National Security Software (NSS) M&S software to meet instructions and directives found in CJCSI 3160 and 3170, as well as, AFI 14-401 and JP 3-60. M&S classified software tools are operationally critical to overall mission success and weapons employment. Weapons employment is not legally possible until a complete target and weapon analysis has been completed. The classified M&S software tools are in constant development to support evolving weapon phenomenology (conventional, directed energy, high power microwave, cyber, hypersonic, etc.) within the Weapons PEO and target modeling of a wide range of multi-domain targets, which includes structural, ground mobile, ships, and more. The Integrated Munitions Effects Analysis (IMEA) software is a classified mission critical program that provides Air Force Operational Warfighters with unique analytical capabilities. These unique capabilities are associated with Hard Deeply Buried Targets (HDBTs), Nuclear Weapons, and Weapons of Counter Mass Destruction (C-WMD) weapons employment. In addition, IMEA also analyzes national strategic sites facility defeat information with Nuclear and WMD weapons in support of Global Strike Command operational warfighter requirement. IMEA is also the software for Massive Ordinance Penetrator (MOP) and Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB) lethality estimates in DoW. The Air Force Target and Effect Software (AFTES) provides an all-domain weapon and target capability to support Advanced Target Development and Intermediate Target Development within ACC and Joint environments. This classified software creates software that is digital, agile, and open.