Counterproliferation Initiatives - Proliferation, Prevention and Defeat

Abstract

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) mission is to safeguard the United States and our allies from global Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) threats by integrating, synchronizing, and providing responsive expertise, technologies, and capabilities unequalled by our adversaries. 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. These objectives are: 1)Ensure a safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent; 2)Anticipate emerging WMD threats; 3)Provide Counter WMD (CWMD) situational awareness; 4)Assess infrastructure and personnel vulnerabilities; 5)Prevent proliferation and use of WMD; 6)Defend against WMD threats; 7)Defeat WMD threats; 8)Recover from WMD consequences; 9)Synchronize countering WMD activities. The Proliferation, Prevention, and Defeat program element reduces WMD proliferation and enhances WMD defeat capabilities through advanced technology development. To accomplish this objective, eight 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, RR-Combating WMD Test and Evaluation, 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).

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2015
Source ID
0603160BR_3_0400_PB_2015
Change Summary Explanation
The decrease in FY 2013 from the previous President's Budget submission is predominately due to Congressional reductions and the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) transfer. The increase in FY 2015 from the previous President's Budget Submission is a result of the net effect of decreased investments in nuclear detection, nuclear treaty technology, counter-terrorism/counterproliferation support and reachback tools and increased investment in the development and integration of high-priority find, characterize, and assess technologies in RT-Target Assessment Technologies. This project has the only identified solution capable of meeting a time sensitive, mission critical technology gap. Reduced investment impacted RA-Information Science and Applications, RE-Counter Terrorism Technologies, RF-Detection and Forensics Technologies, RG-Defeat Technologies, and RI-Nuclear Survivability.
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
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Control Systems
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Information Science
  • Software Testing
  • Terrorism
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Effects
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Strategic Security Studies

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