Eglin Field Office

Joint Munitions Effectiveness Manual (JMEM) Program

OSU is currently working in its 37^th year as the JMEM Production Contractor for the Joint Technical Coordinating Group for Munitions Effectiveness (JTCG/ME). JTCG/ME is a Department of Defense (DoD) program sponsored by the Secretary of Defense’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation. We provide research, analysis, and computational support to three major joint service working groups within the JTCG/ME involved with the production and dissemination of classified conventional munitions effectiveness data. We also provide technical editing, graphics, composing, and document design/layout support to publish all JMEMs and JTCG/ME Special Reports according to military standards. The Oklahoma State University Engineering Research Field Office (OSUFO) is located on Eglin AFB, FL with a satellite office at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.

JTCG/ME provides nonnuclear munitions effectiveness information for DoD targeteers, weaponeers, and planners; operational commanders; weapon system designers; and logisticians. The information includes damage/kill probabilities for specific weapons and targets, physical and functional characteristics of munitions and weapon systems, target vulnerability, obscuration impact on weapon effectiveness, and analytical techniques and procedures for assessing munitions effectiveness. This effort has resulted in a library of classified and unclassified JMEMs and standardized methodologies capable of rapidly generating effectiveness data over a wide range of delivery parameters for air-to-surface, surface-to-surface, antiair, and special forces weapons. The JTCG/ME is organized with three major working groups: JMEM/Air-to-Surface, JMEM/Surface-to-Surface (including Special Operations), and JMEM/Antiair, to cover the spectrum of weapon effects issues. In addition, a formally chartered Operational Users Working Group (OUWG) supports each JMEM working group. The JTCG/ME Program Office is the focal point for all JTCG/ME efforts. They coordinate the efforts of the working groups while the execution of those efforts is the responsibility of the working group chairmen. JMEM/Air-to-Surface is involved in the development of methodologies and analysis of data that assess the effectiveness of weapons launched from the air at targets on the ground. JMEM/Surface-to-Surface assesses weapons delivered from the ground at targets on the ground. JMEM/Antiair assesses weapons launched at air targets. The Joint Service Target Data Standardization Group was formed this year to support the other three working groups by assessing a target’s loss of capability when impacted by a weapon’s damage mechanisms. The OSUFO is organized into branches aligned with the JTCG/ME working groups. The OSUFO Vulnerability, Publications, and Graphics Branches are functionally organized to give maximum support across all working groups. OSUFO personnel coordinate on a daily basis with the working groups and the Program Office. They also work with other JTCG/ME contractors who are developing methodologies or working on target vulnerability studies to ensure their efforts will support JMEM production schedules and needs. The OSUFO performs development and weapons effectiveness analyses as well as supports the working groups in their efforts to obtain weapons data from the government program offices and the weapons contractors. The OSUFO’s major responsibility is to produce JMEMs on time, based on working group schedules, with the capability and data required by the government.

The 56-employee effort is divided 63 percent for research/analytical support and 37 percent for technical publishing support. Research/analytical activity includes development, documentation, and maintenance of sophisticated computer programs designed to produce classified conventional weapons effectiveness data versus a broad spectrum of surface and airborne targets. Research activity also involves the collection and analysis of detailed weapon system characteristics data and target vulnerability data that provides inputs for weapons effectiveness programs.

The technical publishing function, working interactively and concurrently with OSUFO analysts, involves technical editing, illustrating, composing, and document design/layout required to produce high-quality documents to strict military standards. These documents include paper and electronic media products.

JMEMs were used in planning strikes in every conflict from the Vietnam War through Operation Iraqi Freedom. JMEM data are also widely used for training targeteers and weaponeers at service schools, conducting exercises, and supporting deployment contingency planning.

Sponsor: U.S. Air Force

PIs: Karl N. Reid, Arthur J. Rosenbaum