Lethality Advanced Technology

Will mature armament specific components for electronic safe and arm, thermal batteries for fuzing, and novel countermeasure solutions; improve performance of fuzing and sensing components, and energetic materials through gun firing; optimize advanced materials and technologies for future munition and weapon system capabilities for…

Will mature and demonstrate advanced CL-20 explosive formulations; optimize warhead design and assembly procedures and demonstrate performance metrics for system integration in a relevant environment.

Will mature the design of a configurable fuzing architecture, optimizing interface configurability against a broad range of requirements, and improve the design through selection of common component footprints and functionality; assess common operational and technical requirements to validate design framework, optimizing the initial…

Will improve prototype breaching charges to minimize blast overpressure exposure to soldiers and optimize effects on target.

Will mature and optimize liquid reserve battery prototypes for activation and performance metrics. Will demonstrate improved liquid reserve battery prototypes activation and performance via air gun and live fire.

Will exploit new materials for thermal batteries, liquid reserve batteries, and power generators to mitigate material obsolescence issues and reduce supply chain risk in the munitions power industry. Will mature liquid reserve batteries for lethal engagements. Will mature liquid reserve and thermal batteries for artillery.

Will mature and demonstrate advanced warhead designs, including higher-performance JAGM warheads and integrated solutions for counter-UAS, by evaluating penetration at various standoffs and validating full system configurations; mature configurable fuzing architectures to meet standards and mission requirements and demonstrates their…

FY2027 planned work Will mature and demonstrate advanced radar algorithm performance capabilities within a persistent virtual environment to inform performance analysis documentation. Will demonstrate tracking and discrimination algorithms against operational vignettes validating performance improvement. Will provide necessary supporting documentation and algorithms to reduce transition to stakeholder partner.

FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increase reflects planned milestones for updating, assessing and demonstrating developed algorithms within a virtual operational environment.

FY2026 plans — current year Will demonstrate advanced radar counterfire mode with improved range performance; will optimize resource management algorithms based on defined radar hardware utilization; will mature tracking, discrimination, and locator algorithms for expanded/emerging counterfire threat sets.

FY2025 accomplishments Will mature and validate a system and physics model to conduct rapid performance investigations within a system in the loop environment emulator; exploit state-of-the-art software algorithm and determine impacts to counter fire radars; provide and mature resource management algorithms based on defined radar hardware utilization; further mature tracking and discrimination algorithms based on the system and physics model baseline.

FY2025 accomplishments Demonstrated and provided BlastX engineering tool for advanced blast propagation and combined blast/fragmentation models for integration into Army and joint weaponeering systems. Provided semi-automated assessment/capabilities for battle damage assessment for implementation into Army and joint weaponeering systems.

FY2027 planned work Demonstrate high fidelity and fast-running tools for prediction of Army hypersonic munitions. Validate initial weapons effects damage predictive algorithms for munition effects on critical logistical target sets. Demonstrate new blast predictive model for new warhead and explosives technologies.

FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increase reflects addition of workflows to demonstrate tools to predict Army hypersonic munitions, validate algorithms for munition effects on critical logistical target sets, and demonstrate new blast predictive model for warhead and explosives technologies.

FY2026 plans — current year Will validate and demonstrate prediction and analysis of weapon effects codes for penetration of high velocity weapon systems against critical targets; mature and validate warhead models for enhanced penetration predictions and transition to JTCG/ME for integration into weaponeering software; validate advanced fast running blast predictive models for new warhead technologies.