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This division is structured into three major categories: air platforms, kinetic weapons and directed energy weapons. These areas directly support Augmented Warfighter, Operational Endurance, Integrated/Distributed Force, Sensing & Sense Making and the Scalable Lethality priorities. In support of these priorities, the division conducts basic and early applied research in the following enduring research areas.

The Air Warfare and Naval Weapons Applications Division creates naval-unique applied research and advanced technology aligned with current and Future Naval Capability (FNC) gaps and Innovative Naval Prototypes (INPs).

Through the Department of the Navy's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, small businesses of 500 people or less have the opportunity to address naval needs in more than 30 science and technology areas.