Agenda Section Description

Weapons, Munitions & Engagement Alternatives

There are many options available for weapon engagements that are enabled by the future of netted systems and the increasing array of available weapons. The ability to engage targets globally is still a high priority that brings its own set of challenges. Briefing may include:

• The cognitive aspects of target engagement as a function of the growing number of engagement options (ensuring the most effective munition is chosen to support operational plans);
• Ways to achieve desired effects on global targets to include hypervelocity, multi-attack, and kinetic/ directed energy weapon options;
• How to deal with operational constraints such as minimizing collateral damage;
• Precision targeting techniques;
• Understanding systems-of-systems of weapons within Fire Control;
• Next generation weapon systems development (such as electric weapons, lasers, hypervelocity projectiles, hypersonic weapons, etc.); and Integration of new weapon systems.