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

2. 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
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Still Smaller Bombs
…and on the water

3. 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

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

5. 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”

7. Back-Up Slides

8. 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