WMD Defeat Technologies

Abstract

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) WMD Defeat Technologies program element funds the expansion and application of basic scientific knowledge in order to develop novel materials, devices, systems, and methods supporting next generation concepts and technologies that enable advances in weapons of mass destruction (WMD) surveillance, detection, defeat, prevention, nonproliferation, counterproliferation, consequence management, and treaty verification. This Applied Research portfolio is aligned with strategic planning objectives as well as with science and technology (S&T) investment direction which is established annually by DTRA and the US Strategic Command Center for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (SCC-WMD). The objectives directly support policy and planning guidance from the Office of the President, the Department of Defense (DoD), and the broader WMD threat reduction community. The portfolio advances DTRA’s Countering WMD (CWMD) mission by balancing the following imperatives: invest in DTRA’s applied research capabilities and increase the CWMD technology base to maximize future pay-off; capitalize on opportunities to deliver innovative, cost-effective solutions to technical challenges that must be resolved prior to system-specific technology investigations and development; and ensure applied research efforts are directly aligned to mission-specific capability requirements of DTRA, the Military Departments, Combatant Commanders, other DoD and federal agencies, and international partners.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2017
Source ID
0602718BR_2_0400_PB_2017
Change Summary Explanation
The decrease in FY 2017 from the previous President's Budget submission is due to the net effect of increased investment in this program element for the revitalization of CWMD test capabilities, targeting support, and threat forecasting, combined with the transition of full effects modeling technology from applied research (6.2) to advanced technology development (6.3), and the balancing of near term operational needs with future technical developments and capabilities. Other reductions were in support of Departmental efficiencies and economic assumptions.
Service Agency Name
Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Counter WMD
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combatant Commanders
  • Command And Control
  • Computational Science
  • Counterterrorism
  • Detectors
  • Explosives
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Knowledge Management
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Radiological Weapons
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States Strategic Command
  • Weapons Effects
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

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