serves as the logistics and readiness arm of the LCMC, ensuring that munitions are delivered at the right place and time to support unit training and deployments. ARDEC is the Army’s principal researcher, technology developer, and sustainer of current and future armament organizational element of AMC’s RDECOM, ARDEC technology enhancements improve already fielded items, transitions technology to the PEO to develop new ones, maintains a strong armament technology base in government, industry, and academia and provides technical support to the Soldier in the field. The center serves as the entry point for LCMC interaction with RDECOM and its other research, development, and engineering centers. JML Principal Locations • Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey • Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois
U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Chuck Burden; 3rd BCT PAO; 1st Cavalry Division
JML Core Competencies • Design • Acquire
• I ntegrate • Field and sustain conventional ammunition JML Core Functions • Manages research, development, production, storage, distribution, and demilitarization of all conventional ammunition • Deliver the best munitions to the right place, at the right time, and at the right cost
U.S. Army Joint Munitions & Lethality Life Cycle Management Command Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000 (973) 724-9492 www.pica.army.mil/JML
The M7 Spider networked mine system allows operators to choose between discharging lethal or non-lethal munitions. One grenade “can be launched 2 meters high, out 5 to 7 meters, with a 10-meter blast radius, each grenade capable of up to 1,400 fragments,” said Joe Carr, a training instructor for the munitions new equipment training branch at the Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey.
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