Through investments in this focus area TTO aims to discover technological improvements in the ability to project precise force at a distance, prosecute time-sensitive-targets with minimal collateral damage and decisively respond across the full spectrum of armed conflict. This includes the ability to rapidly respond, identify and track threats in complex environments, persist over the battlespace, and to strike fixed and mobile targets at long and short ranges throughout the entire battlespace (air, land, urban, subterranean, maritime targets of interest) with kinetic and non-kinetic effects.
Responsive Engagement
Objectives: Advance weapon systems performance in the ability to reach intended targets; reduce logistics footprint, increase rate of fire/launch and the capability to engage multiple targets across multiple domains and integrated systems, deliver faster, create greater effective range, and enable complex employment tactics for air, land, urban, subterranean, sea and undersea environments
Military Utility: Effective employment through weapon system responsiveness, availability, logistics supportability in the battlefield, cooperative engagement and flexibility to respond to a spectrum of threats
Precision Strike
Objective: Advance strike concepts, methods, and techniques that improve end-game precision engagements associated with target detection, identification, location, tracking, attack and assessment of targets
Objective: Advance strike concepts, methods, and techniques that improve end-game precision engagements associated with target detection, identification, location, tracking, attack and assessment of targets
Kinetic/Non-kinetic Effects
Objectives: Enhance precision engagement with advance munitions and system integration of electromagnetics, plasma, atmospherics, acoustics, intelligent projectiles, and variable yield capabilities; advance technologies, architectures and methods supporting control, detection, sensor defeat and self-protection
Military Utility: Enables adjustable, adaptable, lethal and non-lethal capabilities for scaled engagement against a wide spectrum of targets