General Purpose Bombs

General Purpose Bombs falls under the Air Force's procurement of ammunition budget activity. The specific objectives of this program include the procurement of various types of general purpose bombs, guidance and control kits, and energetics to provide precision bombing capability. These weapons are utilized to defeat non-hard, hardened, and deeply buried targets, bunkers, aircraft shelters, reinforced concrete structures, and various armored targets. The program also aims to invest in analytical, information management, data management, digital environments, networks, facilities, and security infrastructure upgrades to support the development and sustainment of its capabilities while leveraging DoD and DAF enterprise IT solutions.

Furthermore, the program seeks to address production Diminishing Manufacturing Sources (DMS)/Material Shortages/Obsolescence issues through studies, bridge buys, life of type buys, supplier/parts replacement, including electronic components used commercially and in short supply. It also aims to procure inventoried items that may not be procured on an annual basis but could be required on an emerging basis. Additionally, the program is designed to maintain appropriate quantities in the War Reserve Materiel (WRM) Munitions and test and training stockpiles to support requirements for penetrator bombs, low collateral damage bombs, and multiple precision guided bomb configurations.

Overall, the program's goals include ensuring the necessary stock on hand to meet training, operational, and inventory objective requirements worldwide for precision bombing against both hardened and non-hardened targets while addressing production challenges and maintaining readiness objectives.