What project 622502 buys
This project investigates, develops, and evaluates conventional ordnance technologies to establish technical feasibility and military utility for advanced explosives, fuzes, warheads, sub-munitions, and weapon airframes, carriage, and dispensing through integration by design and starting with desired mission effect to deliver war winning capabilities to defend the homeland, provide nuclear deterrence, and deliver force projection. The project also assesses the lethality and effectiveness of current and planned conventional weapons technology programs and assesses target vulnerability. The payoffs include improved storage capability and transportation safety of fully assembled weapons, improved warhead and fuze effectiveness, improved sub-munitions dispensing, low-cost airframe/subsystem components and structures, and reduced aerospace vehicle and weapon drag.
Project 622502 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 62.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 61.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 55.7 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 56.8 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 63.7 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 65.2 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 66.4 |
4 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. 2 of them describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
- Continue developing validated mesoscale modeling and simulation tools for computational physics sciences application of ordnance performance and aging, enabling evolving ordnance concepts development necessary to build a more lethal force. - Continue to develop ordnance engineering-level simulation architecture capabilities, enabling…
Read the FY2027 plan →- Continue maturation of small, multi-output warhead technologies for soft-surface targets, to include limited penetration capability of surface-hardened structures and maritime targets, enabling more weapons on carrier per sortie while sustaining or enhancing lethality. Activities include developing models for water impact and…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work - Continue implementation of digital engineering tools to enable digital design of munition fuzes, supporting optimized fuze and explosive system development for increased survivability and necessary lethality in maritime targets. Activities include developing test capabilities to fill knowledge gaps required for digital tools. - Continue development and demonstration of alternative packaging technology, supporting survivable fuze electronic component development in weapon systems designed for multi-mission purpose. Activities include designing and developing advanced testing systems to test survivable fuze electronic components for all missions. - Continue investigating the reliability and…
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 decreased compared to FY 2026 by $0.781 million due to minor programmatic adjustments to the DAF Science and Technology portfolio.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue implementation of digital engineering tools to enable digital design of munition fuzes, supporting optimized fuze and explosive system development for increased survivability and necessary lethality in maritime targets. Activities include digitally designing fuzes across all relevant scenarios. - Continue development and demonstration of alternative packaging technology, supporting survivable fuze electronic component development in weapon systems designed for multi-mission purpose. - Continue investigating the reliability and survivability of electronic components, enabling prediction and measurement of fuze performance during munition penetration during high-impact speeds…
FY2027 planned work - Continue building and implementing experimental techniques/capabilities to quantify dynamic and mechanical properties as well as survivability of energetic materials in extreme temperature and vibrational environments, supporting energetic materials technology modeling that maximizes weapon lethality, survivability, effectiveness and safety for air-delivered munitions. Activities include establishing a small-scale High Explosive Survivability Test for testing and validation of explosive survival relevant to reliability and performance. - Continue development of tools and analysis techniques to further the understanding of energy partitioning between blast/fragmentation and combined…
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 decreased compared to FY 2026 by $0.766 million due to minor programmatic adjustments to the DAF Science and Technology portfolio.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue building and implementing experimental techniques/capabilities to quantify dynamic and mechanical properties as well as survivability of energetic materials in extreme temperature and vibrational environments, supporting energetic materials technology modeling that maximizes weapon lethality, survivability, effectiveness and safety for air-delivered munitions. - Continue development of tools and analysis techniques to further the understanding of energy partitioning between blast/fragmentation and combined effects to optimize lethality against a broad spectrum of targets, providing operational weaponeering tools with robust lethality analyses and informed/efficient…