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 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Device Defeat; counter-WMD technologies for warfighters; the USSOCOM Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction – Terrorism Support Program (SCSP) ; and oversight of counterproliferation (CP) research and development resources sent directly to USSOCOM for warfighter-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 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. Related funding for this project can be found in the WMD Defeat Technologies: 0602718BR, budget exhibit. 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 Weapons of Mass Destruction (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 Department of Defense (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. Related funding for this project can be found in the WMD Defeat Technologies: 0602718BR, budget exhibit. 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, 2013
Source ID
0603160BR_3_0400_PB_2013
Change Summary Explanation
The increase from the previous President’s Budget submission in FY 2011 is the net effect of the Congressional Rescission, the $25.2M FY 11-21R Prior Approval reprogramming action in support of higher priority Department needs, the Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)/Economic Assumption reductions, and the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) realignment. The decrease in FY 2013 from the previous President’s Budget is predominately due to decreased investment for Counter WMD-Terrorism (CWMD-T) testing and defeat programs and the Counter-WMD Analysis Cell; and the realignment of Radiation Hardened (RadHard) Microelectronics and Information Operations Condition (INFOCON) 3 efforts from Program Element (PE) 0603160BR to PE 0602718BR to better reflect the nature of these programs.
Service Agency Name
Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Application-Specific Integrated Circuits
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Control Systems
  • Counterterrorism
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Explosives
  • Systems Engineering
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Strategic Command
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Effects
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3

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