Counterproliferation Initiatives - Proliferation, Prevention and Defeat

Abstract

The Proliferation, Prevention and Defeat program reduces Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) proliferation and enhances WMD defeat capabilities through advanced technology development. To accomplish this objective, seven project areas were developed: RA - Systems Engineering and Innovation, RE - Counter-Terrorism Technologies, RF - Detection Technology, RG - Counter WMD Weapons & Capabilities, RI - Nuclear Survivability, RM - WMD Battle Management, and RT - Target Assessment Technologies. This supports technology requirements in line with the Joint Functional Concepts (Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction 3170.01). The missions and plans of these projects are described below and in the R-2a Budget Exhibits. Project RA provides the research and development both for systems engineering and analysis support across all other projects and innovative counterproliferation research and technical reachback support. Project RE provides research and development support to Joint U.S. Military Forces, specifically U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) in the areas of Device Defeat, counter WMD technologies for warfighters, USSOCOM Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction – Terrorism (CWMD T) Support Program (SCSP) supports the Joint Intelligence Preparation of the Operational Environment (JIPOE) process to forecast plausible terrorist WMD threats for planning and conducting operations to combat WMD terrorism, and oversight of Counterproliferation (CP) research and development resources sent directly to USSOCOM for Special Operations Forces (SOF)-unique CP technologies. Project RF develops technologies, systems and procedures for post-detonation nuclear forensics, and 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 Weapons of Mass Destruction (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 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 RT provides the Combatant Commands and the Intelligence Community with technologies and processes to find and characterize hard and deeply buried targets and then assess the results of attacks against those targets.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2012
Source ID
0603160BR_3_0400_PB_2012
Change Summary Explanation
The FY 2010 decrease from the previous President’s Budget submission is due to the internal SBIR reprogramming action, the FY 10-23IR reprogramming action to realign a $1,920 Congressional Add to the proper executing agency, and the FY 10-11PA reprogramming action in support of higher priority Department needs. The FY 2012 decrease is predominately attributed to the net effect of Departmental direction for increased efficiency in the area of Advisory & Assistance Services and other contractual services, increased investment for expanded capacity in Technical Reachback. support of increased user requests for information on Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) effects and their consequences, and the conversion of 0603160BR funds to 0602718BR to better reflect the nature of the Radiation Hardened (RadHard) Microelectronics efforts in the RI-Nuclear Survivability budget project. The RadHard efforts are developmental and involve the transition of promising basic research outputs into solutions for broadly defined military needs, short of major development projects, with a view toward development and evaluation of technical feasibility. Also contributing to the reduction are program reductions made to comply with Department guidance to identify funds to support higher priority mission areas.
Service Agency Name
Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Counter WMD
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arms Control
  • Arms Control Treaties
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Explosives
  • Lessons Learned
  • Nuclear Materials
  • Radiological Weapons
  • Systems Engineering
  • Terrorism
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Effects
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.

Technology Areas

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

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