Tank and Medium Caliber Ammunition

Mission — Tank and Medium Caliber Ammunition source

A portion of this funding line is directly aligned to each Future Vertical Lift (FVL) and Assured Positioning, Navigation, & Timing (APNT) Army Modernization Priorities. The Tank and Medium Caliber Ammunition Program Element encompasses a comprehensive program to develop, rapidly transition to production, and field advanced weapons and munitions for small, medium and large caliber munitions, tank ammunition, mortar ammunition, cannon artillery ammunition, and close combat system items. These Projects will ensure continued battlefield overmatch and lethality of United States maneuver forces against the full range of modern battlefield threats. To achieve this, Tank and Medium Caliber Ammunition projects will identify and develop promising technologies through competitive development and streamlined acquisition procedures. Project CD8 - Long Range Precision Munition (LRPM) is the lethal variant of the Launched Effects (LE) Family of Systems which provide a range of capabilities through variations of platforms, payloads, and mission systems. LE provides tactical and operational flexibility through collaboration of heterogeneous groups of LE launched from multiple domains (land and air) in conjunction with other manned platforms, C2, unmanned systems, and sensors throughout the operational environment. The ability to interoperate and coordinate with other LE systems at long ranges and adapt to changing threats is a core concept of the Launched Effects Abbreviated Capability Development Document validated in June 2024. Primary target set for LRPM is Integrated Air Defense Systems. LRPM will provide Army Aviation and Ground Forces with a precise long range munition system to rapidly respond in a combat environment to improve the lethality and stand-off of Warfighters and aviation platforms in an Anti-Access Area Denial (A2AD) and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) denied environment. FY 2026 funding for LRPM transferred to PE 0609345A/Project A46. Project DK5 - The 155 millimeter (mm) High Explosive Conventional Artillery Modernization Project is focused on the design and development of common artillery projectiles capable of accurate delivery of multiple payloads to deliver the Army's Field Artillery operational efficiencies. These efforts will provide the Army's Field Artillery lethal and nonlethal area effects at ranges relevant and decisive to the Division fight. The Modular Artillery for Combat Effectiveness (MACE) line of effort will develop lethal area effects. The Extended Range (ER) Cargo line of effort will develop lethal and non-lethal areas effects at the longer ranges necessary to enable transformation in contact. The Army requires versatile, affordable, sustainable, and enduring projectiles capable of rendering a variety of lethal and non-lethal effects necessary to disable and destroy a broad set of targets within multiple threat formations. This Project is executing an evolutionary approach to ensure a common projectile can support multiple cargo capabilities, including lethal, Radio Frequency (RF) obscuration, visible obscuration, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), Infra-red (IR) illumination, visible illumination, electronic attack, Terrain Shaping Obstacles, and future cargo capabilities. Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding will support the technical assessments, system development, prototypes and integration, concept studies, component testing, technology maturation, and engineering evaluations in support of the Army's Field Artillery Cannon Transformation Strategy. Project DK7 - 155mm Artillery Propulsion Modernization (Advanced Component Development) supports the United States Army's Cannon Transformation Strategy and develops and improves three propulsion systems components: (1) modular charge that achieves minimum to intermediate ranges, (2) super charge that achieves maximum range and (3) percussion primer that initiates both the modular and super charges. Development efforts also include the design of packaging solutions (for protection during transportation and long-term storage), digital engineering, test measurement devices and modeling and simulation tools. Design emphasis will be placed upon Joint Ballistic Memorandum of Understanding (JBMOU) compatibility to maximize interoperability with foreign allies and ensuring that the components support manufacturability within the national technology and industrial base (NTIB) that includes Australia, Canada, UK and US. The Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding will support prototyping and testing of propelling charge and ignition components to advance technology for improvement of the propellant effectiveness, cannon life, primer and charge ignition performance, system-level handling and rates-of-fire, and overall propulsion suitability and survivability. Project DL5 - 155mm Extended Range Artillery Munitions: The Extended Range Artillery Munitions (ERAM) Project supports the development of a 155mm system of systems that includes projectile, propellant, primer, fuze, and fuze setter which will deliver lethality and range overmatch in 155mm artillery weapon systems at more than double the current range from legacy artillery cannons and will be compatible with future 155mm artillery systems in a Global Positioning System (GPS) degraded and denied environments. The ERAM development effort is part of an organic Long Range Precision Fires capability, which will provide overmatching cannon artillery range capability at both Tactical and Operational Fires range by shaping the nature of the close fight through seeking moving and imprecisely located targets at extended ranges, increase range capability of the current 39 caliber cannon fleet and will also be compatible with future 52 caliber and above artillery weapon systems. Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding will support technology maturation and risk reduction of key system and subsystems improvements in performance in difficult use cases, and integration of the tactical warhead and seeker culminating in a series of Design Verification Testing (DVT) to achieve Technology Readiness Level (TRL) six (6) maturity. Project DN7 - The Mobile-Long Range Precision Strike Missile (M-LRPSM) is an approved Directed Requirement (DR). It must defeat Tier 1 thru Tier 3 Armor (stationary & defilade) Troops, Field Fortifications & Urban structures, and achieve a range of greater than 25 KM. It will be transportable by existing Infantry Brigade Combat Teams (IBCT) Light Tactical Vehicle platforms. It has the ability to adjust the missile flight, retarget, and abort, and have multiple missile launch capability. It must be survivable and resilient in denied and degraded environments. Project EC3 - Ammunition Logistics Prototyping: This project supports the future force by improving the distribution, management, reliability, and survivability of ammunition through the advanced development, integration, and demonstration of logistics system enablers supporting the Design of Army 2040. These enablers will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of ammunition operations, to include retrograde, while reducing the logistics footprint on the battlefield. Technology areas addressed include handling, distribution, management (strategic and tactical), prognostics, diagnostics, asset visibility, explosives safety, autonomous friendly packaging and palletization. The efficient deployment and sustainment of reliable ammunition is vital to success on the battlefield. This project enhances the operational effectiveness of the ammunition logistics system to ensure the distribution of reliable ammunition to the Warfighter. Project FA5 - The Assured Precision Weapons and Munitions (APWM) - FA5 Project is focused on advanced risk mitigation, technology integration, prototyping, and product support to identify, evaluate, mature, test, and demonstrate various assured precision and countermeasure prototype technologies in Weapon and Munitions (W&M) components and subsystems within a complex System-of-Systems (SoS) environment. The APWM Project reinforces the National Defense Strategy's (NDS) major lines of effort through technology development and prototyping, which increases lethality and ensures future combat overmatch success of the Joint Force against peer/near-peer adversaries. This project also aims to improve program performance and affordability for multiple W&M Programs of Record (PoRs) via Joint Lethality Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT), layered Navigation Warfare (NavWar) and Electronic Warfare (EW) converged munition delivered effects, and Army M-Code Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinated efforts. The APWM Project directly supports the top Army Modernization Priorities via the All-Domain Sensing (ADS) and Long-Range Precision Fires (LRPF) imperatives in support of the NDS and multiple Public Law related Congressional imperatives. Funding will support engagement by W&M PNT experts in the development, evaluation, and technology maturation/delivery activities of the US Space Force's (USSF) M-Code GPS, Army's PNT related programs, and ADS Cross-Functional Team (CFT) programs in support of LRPF and Counter Anti- Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) missions. Funding will also enable component and subsystem architecture input essential for Precision W&M operating in a contested NavWar and EW SoS environment, Army M-Code GPS technology integration and evaluation, planning and evaluating next generation M-Code GPS to validate capability for future Joint precision munitions, and maturation of alternative PNT and NavWar related technologies and solutions to enable informed PoR milestone and Army cross-functional modernization decisions. Project FG1 - The Cannon Delivered Area Effects Munitions (C-DAEM) Budget Activity Four (BA4) Project supports the development efforts of the XM1155 projectile, which transitioned in FY 2025 from Budget Activity Three (BA3) PE 0603464A / Long Range Precision Fires Advanced Technology Project BO8 Long Range Precision Fires Advanced Tech), will deliver lethality and range overmatch in 155mm artillery weapon systems at more than double the current range from legacy artillery cannons and will be compatible in future 155MM artillery systems in a Global Positioning System (GPS) degraded and denied environments. The XM1155 projectile, developed as part of an organic Long Range Precision Fires capability, will provide overmatching cannon artillery range capability at both Tactical and Operational Fires range by shaping the nature of the close fight through seeking moving and imprecisely located targets at extended ranges, will increase range capability of the current 39 caliber cannon fleet and will also be compatible with future 52 caliber and above artillery weapon systems. This project does not have a FY 2026 budget request. Project XT5 - 30mm Anti-Personnel and Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS): Airburst capability is identified as a threshold Key System Attribute (KSA) in Apache Block 3 Capability Production Document (CPD) - Approved 14 June 2017 and other cannon caliber Operational Needs Statements (ONS) and Capability Development Documents (CDD). The Anti-Personnel and Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) munition provides increased lethality through airburst effects against personnel, small boats, and small Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) without requiring modification to the platform. The FY 2026 request for Tank and Medium Caliber Ammunition includes $85,472 thousand of discretionary and $100,000 thousand of mandatory (reconciliation) for a total of $185,472 thousand. The mandatory funds $15,000 thousand supports technical assessments, system development, prototypes and integration, concept studies, component testing, technology maturation, and engineering evaluations in support of the Army's Field Artillery Cannon Transformation Strategy. The mandatory funds $15,000 thousand support prototyping and testing of propelling charge and ignition components to advance technology for improvement of the propellant effectiveness, cannon life, primer and charge ignition performance, system-level handling and rates-of-fire, and overall propulsion suitability and survivability. The mandatory funds $40,000 thousand funding will support development and testing, utilizing a Middle Tier Acquisition approach, of key system and subsystems, improvements in performance in difficult use cases, and integration of the tactical warhead and seeker culminating in a series of Design Verification Testing (DVT) to achieve Technology Readiness Level (TRL) six (6) maturity. The mandatory funds $20,000 thousand will Influence Next Gen MGUE development to ensure PGM needs and requirements are met with the USSF Next Gen MGUE. Evaluate the Next Gen MGUE using the DoD-selected representative Joint precision munition to verify and validate PGM needs and requirements are met by Next Gen MGUE. Directly addresses PL 111-383 aka FY11 NDAA Section 913: Jan 11 (M-Code Mandate), PL 115-232 aka FY19 NDAA Section 1609: Aug 18 (MGUE Inc2 must support Galileo and QZSS), DODI 4650.08: Dec 18 (DOD NavWar Compliance), MGUE Inc2 PGM TRD: Oct 19, AltNav DR: Nov 19, FY21 NDAA Section 1611 (Resilient and Survivable PNT). The mandatory funds $10,000 thousand will provide developmental engineering, product improvements, integration support for the M-LRPSM system in FY 2026. Further information for this reconciliation request is provided in Section 20004 (Munitions & Supply Chain) of the Reconciliation Exhibit. The FY 2026 request was reduced by $0.342 million for Advisory and Assistance Services to promote efficiencies and advance the policies of the Administration in alignment with Executive Order 14222, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative."

Mission — Long Range Precision Munition (LRPM) source

Long Range Precision Munition (LRPM) is the lethal variant of the Launched Effects (LE) Family of Systems which provide a range of capabilities through variations of platforms, payloads, and mission systems. LE provides tactical and operational flexibility through collaboration of heterogeneous groups of LE launched from multiple domains (land and air) in conjunction with other manned platforms, C2, unmanned systems, and sensors throughout the operational environment. The ability to interoperate and coordinate with other LE systems at long ranges and adapt to changing threats is a core concept of the Launched Effects Abbreviated Capability Development Document validated in June 2024. Primary target set for LRPM is Integrated Air Defense Systems. LRPM will provide Army Aviation and Ground Forces with a precise long range munition system to rapidly respond in a combat environment to improve the lethality and stand-off of Warfighters and aviation platforms in an Anti-Access Area Denial (A2AD) and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) denied environment. FY 2026 funding for LRPM transferred to PE 0609345A/Project A46.

Mission — Conventional Artillery Modernization source

The 155 millimeter (mm) High Explosive Conventional Artillery Modernization Project is focused on the design and development of common artillery projectiles capable of accurate delivery of multiple payloads to deliver the Army's Field Artillery operational efficiencies. These efforts will provide the Army's Field Artillery lethal and nonlethal area effects at ranges relevant and decisive to the Division fight. The Modular Artillery for Combat Effectiveness (MACE) line of effort will develop lethal area effects. The Extended Range (ER) Cargo line of effort will develop lethal and non-lethal areas effects at the longer ranges necessary to enable transformation in contact. The Army requires versatile, affordable, sustainable, and enduring projectiles capable of rendering a variety of lethal and non-lethal effects necessary to disable and destroy a broad set of targets within multiple threat formations. This Project is executing an evolutionary approach to ensure a common projectile can support multiple cargo capabilities, including lethal, Radio Frequency (RF) obscuration, visible obscuration, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), Infra-red (IR) illumination, visible illumination, electronic attack, Terrain Shaping Obstacles, and future cargo capabilities. Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding will support the technical assessments, system development, prototypes and integration, concept studies, component testing, technology maturation, and engineering evaluations in support of the Army's Field Artillery Cannon Transformation Strategy.

Mission — 155mm Artillery Propulsion Mod - Adv Component Dev source

155mm Artillery Propulsion Modernization (Advanced Component Development) supports the United States Army's Cannon Transformation Strategy and develops and improves three propulsion systems components: (1) modular charge that achieves minimum to intermediate ranges, (2) super charge that achieves maximum range and (3) percussion primer that initiates both the modular and super charges. Development efforts also include the design of packaging solutions (for protection during transportation and long-term storage), digital engineering, test measurement devices and modeling and simulation tools. Design emphasis will be placed upon Joint Ballistic Memorandum of Understanding (JBMOU) compatibility to maximize interoperability with foreign allies and ensuring that the components support manufacturability within the National Technology and Industrial Base (NTIB) that includes Australia, Canada, UK and US. The Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding will support prototyping and testing of propelling charge and ignition components to advance technology for improvement of the propellant effectiveness, cannon life, primer and charge ignition performance, system-level handling and rates-of-fire, and overall propulsion suitability and survivability.

Mission — 155mm Extended Range Artillery Munitions source

The Extended Range Artillery Munitions (ERAM) Project supports the development of a 155mm system of systems that includes projectile, propellant, primer, fuze, and fuze setter which will deliver lethality and range overmatch in 155mm artillery weapon systems at more than double the current range from legacy artillery cannons and will be compatible with future 155mm artillery systems in Global Positioning System (GPS) degraded and denied environments. The ERAM development effort is part of an organic Long Range Precision Fires capability, which will provide overmatching cannon artillery range capability at both Tactical and Operational Fires range by shaping the nature of the close fight through seeking moving and imprecisely located targets at extended ranges, increase range capability of the current 39 caliber cannon fleet and will also be compatible with future 52 caliber and above artillery weapon systems. Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding will support technology maturation and risk reduction of key system and subsystems, improvements in performance in difficult use cases, and integration of the tactical warhead and seeker supporting a series of Design Verification Testing (DVT) to achieve Technology Readiness Level (TRL) six (6) maturity.

Mission — Mobile Long Range Precision Strike Pgm (M-LRPSM) source

DN7: The Mobile-Long Range Precision Strike Missile (M-LRPSM) is an approved Directed Requirement (DR). It must defeat Tier 1 thru Tier 3 Armor (stationary & defilade) Troops, Field Fortifications & Urban structures, and achieve a range of greater than 25 KM. It will be transportable by existing Infantry Brigade Combat Teams (IBCT) Light Tactical Vehicle platforms. It has the ability to adjust the missile flight, retarget, and abort, and have multiple missile launch capability. It must be survivable and resilient in denied and degraded environments. The FY 2026 request for M-LRPSM includes $5,956 thousand of discretionary and $10,000 thousand of mandatory (reconciliation) for a total of $15,956 thousand. The mandatory funds will provide developmental engineering, product improvements, integration support for the M-LRPSM system in FY 2026. Further information for this reconciliation request is provided in Section 20004 Munitions & Supply Chain of the Reconciliation Exhibit.

Mission — Ammunition Logistics Prototyping source

This project supports the future force by improving the distribution, management, reliability, and survivability of ammunition through the advanced development, integration, and demonstration of logistics system enablers supporting the Design of Army 2040. These enablers will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of ammunition operations, to include retrograde, while reducing the logistics footprint on the battlefield. Technology areas addressed include handling, distribution, management (strategic and tactical), prognostics, diagnostics, asset visibility, explosives safety, autonomous friendly packaging, and palletization. The efficient deployment and sustainment of reliable ammunition is vital to success on the battlefield. This project enhances the operational effectiveness of the ammunition logistics system to ensure the distribution of reliable ammunition to the Warfighter.

Mission — Assured Precision Weapons and Munitions source

The Assured Precision Weapons and Munitions (APWM) - FA5 Project is focused on advanced risk mitigation, technology integration, prototyping, and product support to identify, evaluate, mature, test, and demonstrate various assured precision and countermeasure prototype technologies in Weapon and Munitions (W&M) components and subsystems within a complex System-of-Systems (SoS) environment. The APWM Project reinforces the National Defense Strategy's (NDS) major lines of effort through technology development and prototyping, which increases lethality and ensures future combat overmatch success of the Joint Force against peer/near-peer adversaries. This project also aims to improve program performance and affordability for multiple W&M Programs of Record (PoRs) via Joint Lethality Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT), layered Navigation Warfare (NavWar) and Electronic Warfare (EW) converged munition delivered effects, and Army M-Code Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinated efforts. The APWM Project directly supports the top Army Modernization Priorities via the All-Domain Sensing (ADS) and Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF) imperatives in support of the NDS and multiple Public Law related Congressional imperatives. Funding will support engagement by W&M PNT experts in the development, evaluation, and technology maturation/delivery activities of the US Space Force's (USSF) M-Code GPS, Army's PNT related programs, and ADS Cross-Functional Team (CFT) programs in support of LRPF and Counter Anti- Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) missions. Funding will also enable component and subsystem architecture input essential for Precision W&M operating in a contested NavWar and EW SoS environment, Army M-Code GPS technology integration and evaluation, planning and evaluating next generation M-Code GPS to validate capability for future Joint precision munitions, and maturation of alternative PNT and NavWar related technologies and solutions to enable informed PoR milestone and Army cross-functional modernization decisions.

Mission — Cannon-Delivered Area Effects Munitions (C-DAEM) source

The Cannon Delivered Area Effects Munitions (C-DAEM) Budget Activity Four (BA4) Project supports the development efforts of the Extended Range Artillery Projectile (ERAP), which transitioned in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 from Budget Activity Three (BA3) PE 0603464A / Long Range Precision Fires Advanced Technology Project BO8 Long Range Precision Fires Advanced Tech), will deliver lethality and range overmatch in 155mm artillery weapon systems at more than double the current range from legacy artillery cannons and will be compatible in future 155MM artillery systems in a Global Positioning System (GPS) degraded and denied environments. ERAP, developed as part of an organic Long Range Precision Fires capability, will provide overmatching cannon artillery range capability at both Tactical and Operational Fires range by shaping the nature of the close fight through seeking moving and imprecisely located targets at extended ranges, will increase range capability of the current 39 caliber cannon fleet and will also be compatible with future 52 caliber and above artillery weapon systems. This Project does not have a FY 2026 budget request.

Mission — 30mm Anti-Personnel and Counter UAS source

Airburst capability is identified as a threshold Key System Attribute (KSA) in Apache Block 3 Capability Production Document (CPD) - Approved 14 June 2017 and other cannon caliber Operational Needs Statements (ONS) and Capability Development Documents (CDD). The Anti-Personnel and Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) munition provides increased lethality through airburst effects against personnel, small boats, and small Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) without requiring modification to the platform.

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