Improvised Threat Reduction Applied Research

Abstract

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Counter Improvised-Threat Simulation Advanced Technology Development program element funds Technology Outreach as well as development of modeling-and-simulation and analysis support tools that enhance counter-improvised explosive devices (C-IED) and counter improvised threat (C-IT) efforts. Enable Rapid Capability Delivery. This activity is driven by current threat activities. It enables the timely validation, resourcing, research (basic or applied), and rapid prototype development and delivery to counter booby-trapped structures, buried IEDs, home-made explosives, person/suicide-borne IEDs, and radio-controlled IEDs that continue to impact deployed US Joint force maneuverability and force protection. This includes Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) manpower and also enables coordination with other stakeholders and all supporting test and evaluation activities.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2020
Source ID
0602134BR_2_0400_PB_2020
Change Summary Explanation
The increase in FY 2020 supports investment in applied research looking for disruptive technologies that will provide a greater than 70% solution to the following investment areas: Stand-Off Detection, Anti-Armor IED (AAIED), System Attributes across the Portfolio (Machine Learning, & Artificial Intelligence), as well as increased investment in future-threat forecasting and innovative analytical research studies leveraging expertise from academia and research institutions in government and industry. These areas of investment continue to be identified time and again as challenging problem sets for the warfighters as identified by the CCMDs and warfighting commands in the CCMD integrated priority lists and JUONs. This is all in support of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering ASD(R&E) guidance and congressional testimony to provide the technological foundation that ensures the U.S. military of both today and tomorrow is the most capable in the fight against IEDs and emerging improvised threats. These resources will be applied to the following: designing and fabricating ultra-light weight auxetic structures that significantly reduce damage to vehicles through reducing deflection upon impact from mine blast; developing the Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and unmanned aerial vehicle cameras needed to create a 3D map of an environment; developing explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methodologies to enable human understanding of Machine Learning decisions; developing fusion strategies to improve Machine Learning algorithms by including human-in-the- loop knowledge into its learning strategies; developing methods to optimize algorithms through artificial intelligence and machine learning; and forecasting future threat scenarios and threat network resiliency.
Service Agency Name
Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Counter IED
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detection
  • Emerging Technology
  • Engineering
  • Explosive Devices
  • Explosively Formed Penetrators
  • Explosives
  • Force Protection
  • Governments
  • Improvised Explosive Devices
  • Lidar
  • Machine Learning
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands

Readers

  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering

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