The Advancing Army Modernization Priorities - Energetic Materials (AAMP-EM) is a cooperative agreement between the Purdue Energetics Research Center (PERC) and Army Research Laboratory. Research related to energetic materials - explosives, propellants and pyrotechnics - is essential to the Defense Department's modernization priorities. AAMP-EM responds to this defense need with a comprehensive research agenda that targets every aspect of the U.S. energetic materials enterprise, from synthesizing molecules all the way to manufacturing munitions.