Counterproliferation Initiatives - Proliferation, Prevention and Defeat

Abstract

The Proliferation, Prevention and Defeat program element 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 - Information Science and Applications, RE - Counter-Terrorism Technologies, RF – Detection and Forensics Technologies, RG - Defeat Technologies, RI - Nuclear Survivability, RM - WMD Counterforce Technologies, and RT - Target Assessment Technologies. These projects support 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. The DTRA’s Proliferation, Prevention and Defeat program element supports the National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats priorities. The strategy spells out four focus areas: 1) Promote global health security efforts through building and improving international capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats, whether caused by natural, accidental, or deliberate events, 2) Establish and reinforce norms against the misuse of the life sciences, 3) Expand our capability to prevent, attribute, and apprehend those engaged in biological weapons proliferation or terrorism, with a focus on facilitating data sharing and knowledge discovery to improve integrated capabilities (Capability Expansion), and 4) Leverage science, technology, and innovation through domestic and international partnerships and agreements to improve global capacity to respond to and recover from biological incidents (Leveraging Science). There are three of the four focus areas (1, 3, and 4) supported in this program element under projects RE-Counter-Terrorism Technologies, RM-WMD Counterforce Technologies, and RT-Target Assessment Technologies. Details are provided in the R-2a exhibits.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2014
Source ID
0603160BR_3_0400_PB_2014
Change Summary Explanation
The decrease from the previous President’s Budget submission in FY 2012 is due to the internal SBIR transfer. The decrease in FY 2014 from the previous President’s Budget submission is predominately due to the realignment of test bed facilities from RT-Target Assessment Technologies in Program Element (PE) 0603160BR to RR-Test Infrastructure in PE 0602718BR to better reflect the nature of those activities and decreased investment in RF-Detection and Forensics Technologies and RT-Target Assessment Technologies.
Service Agency Name
Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application-Specific Integrated Circuits
  • Arms Control
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Control Systems
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Explosives
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Software Testing
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Effects
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

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