U.S. Air Force Armament Directorate

Were building the future $92 billion weapons portfolio. The performance of United States weapons systems must remain unmatched, ensuring the U.S. military forces have a tactical combat advantage over any adversary in any environmental situation. OUR MISSION The Armament Directorate Systems Development Divisions mission is to harvest, mature, demonstrate and transition the best ideas into disruptive national munitions capabilities. At our core, we want every Airman who enters combat to be confident that they have the best weapons technology at their disposal, creating massive advantages over our adversaries, and ensuring victory before a shot is fired. OUR PROCESS Starting with an understanding of the warfighter need, we develop and/or match innovative technologies to these needs to create future weapons concepts. We create digital, open-systems architectures of these concepts and their operational environments and then optimize the concepts via live, virtual, and constructive t...