Counterproliferation Initiatives - Proliferation, Prevention, and Defeat

Abstract

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Counterproliferation Initiatives - Proliferation, Prevention, and Defeat program element funds the development and testing of subsystems and components for integration into prototype systems with the potential to transition into mature, state-of-the-art weapons of mass destruction (WMD) surveillance, detection, defeat, prevention, nonproliferation, counterproliferation, consequence management, and treaty verification capabilities. The Counterproliferation Initiatives - Proliferation, Prevention, and Defeat 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 the Countering WMD (CWMD) mission by selecting advanced technology development initiatives that meet the following criteria: (1) efforts are clearly defined and directly linked to mission-specific capability requirements of DTRA, the Military Departments, Combatant Commanders, other DoD and federal agencies, and international partners; (2) preliminary assessments of subsystems and components offer the highest potential for technological feasibility, operability and producibility upon transition out of S&T research; (3) activities demonstrate cost effectiveness or cost reduction potential of technologies during field testing or simulation at scale.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2017
• Source ID: 0603160BR_3_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 the transition of full effects modeling technology from applied research (6.2) to advanced technology development (6.3), decreased investment in detection technologies in (6.3) to fund increased investment in targeting support, and threat forecasting in (6.2). This is part of an overall Agency rebalancing of near term operational needs with future technical developments and capabilities. Other reductions were in support of Departmental efficiencies, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC), and economic assumptions. Reductions to the RDT&E portfolio impacted investment in efforts with lower return on investment, lower customer demand, or that were early in the development cycle.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Autonomy
• Counter WMD
• Cyber
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Force
• Bayesian Networks
• Combatant Commanders
• Command And Control
• Command And Control Systems
• Control Systems
• Detection
• Detectors
• Information Science
• Information Systems
• Knowledge Management
• Materials Science
• National Security
• Test And Evaluation
• Unified Combatant Commands
• Weapons Effects
• Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

• Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
• Defense Technology Research and Development.