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Digital Engineering Efforts for Munitions Yield Lessons Learned for Possible Fielding

Digital Engineering Efforts for Munitions Yield Lessons Learned for Possible Fielding
An F-16 Fighting Falcon flown by U.S. Air Force Maj. Jacob Schonig from the 416th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards AFB, Calif., conducts a mid-air refueling operation with a KC-135 Stratotanker during a captive-carry flight test of a Gray Wolf cruise missile prototype on June 9, 2020 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Last fall, former U.S. Air Force acquisitions chief Will Roper held out the possibility that the service would soon announce an e-series, digitally engineered weapon to follow the Air Force designation of the eT-7A training aircraft as the service's first e-series platform and aircraft. While the Air Force has yet to disclose what its first digitally engineered munition will be and when the latter could field, development efforts are ongoing within the Air Force at Program Executive Officer for Weapons…

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