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1999 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research's Air and Surface Weapons Technology Program (1999) / Chapter Skim
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Executive Summary
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... The ONR ASWT program resides within the Strike Technology Division of ONR' s Naval Expeditionary Warfare Science and Technology Department and accounts for approximately 25 percent of the department's budget. The program comprises the following weaponry mission areas: air superiority, precision strike, naval fire support, and ship-based defense, as well as a supporting science and technology (S&T)
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... The ONR ASWT program devotes only a limited effort to tasks that are directly responsive to a concept of operations that would allow a moving target to be attacked by weapons launched from ranges beyond the line of sight of the launch platform. As weapon range requirements increase, there will be an increasing need to launch weapons on targets detected and held by sensors on platforms other than the weapon launch platform.
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... Reduce the number of intelligent air vehicles and UCAV programs, and then redirect 6.1 and 6.2 program components toward closer coupling to other important needs of ONR's ASWT program. Surviving 6.1 candidate program components also should be scrutinized carefully for scientific merit.
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Key Terms

  • program components
  • onr aswt
  • fire support
  • naval fire
  • weapons technology

  • launch platform
  • attack moving
  • warfare center
  • ranges beyond
  • moving targets

  • surface weapons
  • overall aswt
  • industry independent
  • following weaponry
  • entire weapons

  • naval expeditionary
  • damage assessment
  • surface warfare
  • target kill
  • marine corps

  • including uninhabited
  • increasing efforts
  • emerging weapon
  • timely transitioning
  • cost parameter

  • nswc dahlgren
  • ephemeral targets
  • stationary targets
  • weaponry program
  • sufficient warhead


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