Fires is “the use of weapons systems or other actions to create specific lethal or nonlethal effects on a target (DoD Joint Publication 1-02). Having the role to research, develop and demonstrate new fires capabilities for the Navy and Marine Corps, the Maritime Fires S&T Program is threat-informed, future-focused and in alignment with the Naval Services’ strategic, operational and tactical capability gaps. The program focuses on precision guided munitions (PGM), long range precision fires (LRPF), and small armed unmanned systems of all platform types (UxS).
Research Areas
- Fire-and-forget, all-weather engagements of stationary, relocatable, and moving land and sea targets
- Weapon systems for multiple, currently in-service manned and unmanned launch platforms
- Very low size, weight, power, and cost of weapons components and weapon systems, having low manpower and training needs, low cognitive burdens to operate, and low logistics burdens
- Accelerating the kill chain (find, fix, track, target, engage, assess (F2T2EA))
- Increasing the ranges of munitions
- Increasing lethality of munitions for land and sea targets
- Nonlethal payloads for munitions
- Survivability of launch platforms and munitions throughout the mission
- Friendly force deception from fires engagements
Applications
- Small arms
- All stages of the F2T2EA kill web model
- Precision guided munitions
- Long range precision fires
- Small armed unmanned systems of all platform types (UxS)
How to Submit
For detailed application and submission information for this research topic, please refer to our broad agency announcement (BAA) No. N0001425SB001.
Contracts: All white papers and full proposals for contracts must be submitted through FedConnect; instructions are included in the BAA.
Grants: All white papers for grants must be submitted through FedConnect, and full proposals for grants must be submitted through grants.gov; instructions are included in the BAA.