Countering WMD Test and Evaluation
Abstract
The Countering WMD Test and Evaluation project provides a unique national test bed capability for simulated Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) facility characterization, weapon-target interaction, and WMD facility defeat testing. The test bed facility provides structured and systematic end-to-end test event planning, preparation, management, execution, and data analysis. The test bed offers test instrumentation (data acquisition systems and optics), scientific analysis and predictions, test article construction, test article/test bed remediation, tunnel mining, architectural and engineering design, systems engineering and integration, and test data management. The facility leverages fifty years of expertise in investigating weapons effects and target response across the spectrum of hostile environments that could be created by proliferant nations or terrorist organizations with access to advanced conventional weapons or WMD. Subject matter experts design full and sub-scale testing strategies focusing on weapon-target interaction with fixed soft and hardened facilities to include above ground facilities, cut-and-cover facilities, and deep underground tunnels. This capability does not exist anywhere else within the Department of Defense (DoD) and supports the counterproliferation pillar of the National Strategy to Counter WMD. The increase from FY 2015 to FY 2016 is due to increased investment in test and technology support and the national test bed. The increase from FY 2016 to FY 2017 is due to increased investment in test and technology support to revitalize DTRA’s CWMD test and evaluation capability.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2017
- Source ID
- **RR_0602718BR_2_0400_PB_2017
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