Armament Directorate

Col. Robert Lyons III is the Program Executive Officer for Weapons and Director of the Armament Directorate, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Air Force Materiel Command, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. He is responsible for the planning and execution of all life cycle activities for air-delivered munitions, including the Advance Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, Hard Target Void Sensing Fuze, Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile, Joint Direct Attack Munition; Joint Programmable Fuze, Miniature Air Launched Decoy; and Small Diameter Bomb.

Led by the Air Force Program Executive Officer for Weapons, the directorate reports to both the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Washington D.C., and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

The directorate designs, develops, produces, fields, and sustains a family of air-to-ground and air-to-air munitions for both U.S. and allied nations to defeat a spectrum of enemy targets.

Primary operations locations:

Eglin AFB
Hill AFB
Robins AFB

$100B Armament Directorate Portfolio

MISSION: Provide Air Dominance capabilities at the speed of relevance.

MISSION:
Forge innovative, Agile, Attack capabilities at the speed of relevance to support the US Warfighter and Coalition Partners.

MISSION:
Delivers advanced, long-range, precise air-launched weapon capabilities…at the speed of operational relevance.

MISSION: Powering the weapons enterprise with a superior workforce, modernized facilities, and innovative digital capabilities.

MISSION:
Arm and sustain the Defenders of Freedom with war-winning munitions capabilities for US and partner nations.

MISSION:
Acquires dominant strike weapon capabilities with speed and agility through transformative digital acquisition and open architecture approaches.

MISSION:
The hub of armament concept creation and capability cultivation, one that is undaunted by risk, harnesses the brilliance of people from all sectors, boldly grasps technology’s leading edge, sharpens it, and thrusts it into warfighters hands to deter at peace and defeat in armed conflict.

MISSION: Ensure decisive victory with rapidly upgradeable stand-in weapons.

MISSION: EBU Shield

Develop, Produce, and Sustain the tactical weapons to deter or defeat the enemy in the air or on the ground.

MISSION:
Provides the infrastructure and tools to train the world’s best aircrew for survivability in high-threat environments.

COLONEL ROBERT LYONS III - PEO OF ARMAMENT DIRECTORATE

WHAT WE DO

ABOUT US

AIR DOMINANCE DIVISION (AFLCMC/EBA)

ATTACK DIVISION (AFLCMC/EBD)

LONG RANGE SYSTEMS DIVISION (AFLCMC/EBJ)

RAPID ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS DIVISION (AFLCMC/EBR)

MUNITIONS DIVISION (AFLCMC/EBH)

AGILE WEAPONS DIVISION (AFLCMC/EBX)

DISRUPTIVE FUTURES DIVISION (AFLCMC/EBZ)

STAND-IN STRIKE (AFLCMC/EBI)

Weapons Superiority Division (AFLCMC/EBU)

RANGE SYSTEMS DIVISION (AFLCMC/HBZ)

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