WMD Defeat Technologies

Abstract

The mission of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is to safeguard America and its allies from Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) by reducing the present threat and preparing for the future threat. This mission directly reflects several national and Department of Defense level guidance/vision documents to include the National Security Strategy, Unified Command Plan, National Strategy to Combat WMD, Counterproliferation Interdiction, National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, National Military Strategy, Global Development of Forces, Global Employment of Forces, National Military Strategy for Combating WMD, National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism, Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan (including the Nuclear Annex), and Nuclear Posture Review. To achieve this mission, DTRA has identified principal objectives along with strategies and tasks to ensure the objectives are met. Three of these objectives are to deter the use of WMD, reduce the present threat, and to prepare for the future threat. A focused and strong threat reduction technology base is critical to achieving these objectives and is closely tied with the operational support programs that make up its combat support mission. DTRA has taken the steps to develop this technology base and provide a foundation for transformational activities within the WMD arena. Project RA provides systems engineering and analysis support across all other Projects, innovative counterproliferation research, and technical advisory reachback support on WMD effects and consequences. Project RE provides research and development support to the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction – Terrorism Support Program (SCSP) to forecast plausible terrorist WMD threats for planning and conducting operations to combat WMD terrorism. Follow-on funding for this project can be found in the Proliferation Prevention and Defeat; 0603160BR, budget exhibit. Project RF develops technologies, systems and procedures to detect, identify, track, tag, locate, monitor and interdict strategic and improvised nuclear and radiological weapons, components, or materials in support of Department of Defense (DoD) requirements for combating terrorism, counterproliferation and nonproliferation, homeland defense, and international initiatives and agreements. Project RG develops advanced technologies and weapon concepts and validates their applicability as counter WMD weapon systems. Project RI provides the capability for DoD nuclear forces and their associated control and support systems and facilities in wartime to avoid, repel, or withstand attack or other hostile action, to the extent that essential functions can continue or be resumed after the onset of hostile action. Project RL develops nuclear and radiological assessment modeling tools to support military operational planning, weapon effects predictions, and strategic system design decisions. Project RM provides (1) full-scale testing of counter WMD weapon effects, sensor performance, and weapon delivery optimization, (2) weapon effects modeling, and (3) the Defense Threat Reduction Agency Experimentation Lab. Project RR provides a unique national test bed capability for simulated WMD facility characterization, weapon-target interaction, and WMD facility defeat testing to respond to operational needs by developing and maintaining test beds used by the DoD, the Services, the Combatant Commanders and other federal agencies to evaluate the implications of WMD, conventional, and other special weapon use against U.S. military or civilian systems and targets. Project RT provides the Combatant Commands and the Intelligence Community with technologies and processes to find and characterize Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) targets located in underground facilities and then, in near-real-time, assess the results of attacks against those targets. Follow-on funding for this project can be found in the Proliferation Prevention and Defeat; 0603160BR, budget exhibit. Project RU provides (1) strategic studies to support DoD, (2) Decision support tools and analysis to support combating WMD research and development investments, and (3) early applied research for technology development.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2013
• Source ID: 0602718BR_2_0400_PB_2013
• Change Summary Explanation: The decrease from the previous President’s Budget submission in FY 2011 is the net effect of the Congressional Rescission, the Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) reduction, the Economic Assumption reduction, and a transfer of funding to WMD Defeat Capabilities; 0605000BR for increased investment in the Joint Collaborative Analysis Module of the Integrated Weapons of Mass Destruction Toolset (IWMDT). The decrease from the previous President’s Budget submission in FY 2013 is predominately due to decreased efforts in Advanced Energetics, University Strategic Partnerships, CWMD-T, Innovation, System Engineering, Test and Technology Support, DTRA Wargaming, Environmental Restoration Support and WMD National Test Bed.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Counter WMD
• Cyber
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Combatant Commanders
• Contingency Operations (Military)
• Detectors
• Environment
• Environmental Restoration And Remediation
• Explosives
• Materials Processing
• Military Science
• Nuclear Materials
• Nuclear Weapons
• Radiological Weapons
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Unified Combatant Commands
• United States Strategic Command
• Warfare
• Weapons Effects

Readers

• Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
• Defense Technology Research and Development.
• Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control