Air Armament Symposium General Ronald E. Keys COMACC 4 October 2005

What I said last time (and the time before that): Weapons Transformation Weapons Worked Well Need a big precision inventory Need all-weather precision Still need unguided weapons Still need cluster weapons What We Could Have Used Interoperability across platforms Smaller bombs Larger bombs Counter WMD “Auto-BDA” weapons Mobile targets in weather Target identification Multi-Mode Seekers ------ -- Still Smaller Bombs …and on the water

Weapons Capabilities Where we are going: Extended range Joint Air-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM-ER) Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser (WCMD-ER) Increased Carriage: Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) Mobile Targets: SDB II / Weapons Datalink Counter Maritime: JASSM, WCMD-ER/SFW, SDB II Increased Flexibility: Joint Programmable Fuse Transition to multi-sensor, multi-role munitions

Modernization Focus Future Air Force weapon systems Multirole / multiservice Small deployment package Persistent Long range with a lethal payload Plug-n-Play

Shaping the Future BBQ Recapitalization Has to be “Spiral-able” Budget BRAC Quadrennial Defense Review Recapitalization New / New Old / New New / Old Has to be “Spiral-able” Has to be “Slice-able” Has to be Joint “Net-able” Has to be “Reuse-able” Has to be “Support-able”

Back-Up Slides

Advance Targeting Pods LITENING AT and Sniper XR enables more effective mission accomplishment Airborne Forward Air Controller Close Air Support Time Sensitive Targeting Strike Coordination and Reconnaissance Non-Traditional ISR Combat ID Kill the correct target Avoid Blue-on-Blue Fratricide Reduce collateral damage Capabilities Video DownLink 3rd Gen FLIR, 50K Laser, Laser Spot Tracker J-series precise coordinate generation