Provides the scientific and technological base that expands the operational superiority to the Navy and Marine Corps in Air Warfare and Naval Weapons

As S&T lead for the Sea Strike pillar of Sea Power 21, the department is responsible for the fostering, planning, managing and executing of scientific research and technology development in the areas of physics, aerospace materials, energetics, surface and air launched weapons, kinetic and directed energy weapons, robotics and unmanned aerial systems, air vehicle structures and subsystems, vehicle self-protection and survivability and air vehicles design, modeling and simulation.