DTRA Basic Research Initiative

Abstract

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) safeguards America and its allies from Weapons of Mass Destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high explosives) by providing capabilities to reduce, eliminate, counter the threat, and mitigate its effects. The Basic Research Initiative program provides for the discovery and development of fundamental knowledge and understanding by research performers drawn primarily from academia and world-class research institutions in government and industry. This leverages Department of Defense’s $1 billion annual investment in basic research by ensuring a motivation within the scientific community to conduct research benefiting Weapons of Mass Destruction-related defense missions and by improving Agency knowledge of other research efforts of potential benefit to DTRA nonproliferation, counterproliferation and consequence management efforts. These efforts are closely coordinated with the Chem-Bio Technology portfolio which executes a basic research program under the joint Chem-Bio Defense Program. Agency research interests are coordinated with those of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Service basic research programs through the Defense Basic Research Advisory Group. DTRA reviews research interests annually to focus on technology areas not clearly addressed by other basic research efforts. The increase from FY 2010 to FY 2011 is due to a FY 2010 Congressional budget reduction of $7.500M which was levied on the program due to the rate of program growth. The FY 2011 to FY 2016 program reflects the DTRA corporate decision to fund the 6.1 Basic Research program to 8-10% of Total Obligation Authority.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2012
• Source ID: 0601000BR_1_0400_PB_2012
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2010 decrease from the previous President’s Budget submission is due to the internal SBIR reprogramming and the FY 10-11PA reprogramming action in support of higher priority Department needs.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Communities
• Department Of Defense
• Governments
• Investments
• Motivation
• Procurement
• Teamwork
• Test And Evaluation
• Universities
• Urban Areas
• Weapons
• Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

• Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
• Defense Technology Research and Development.

Technology Areas

• Biotechnology