*Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction Advanced Technology Development

Abstract

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Advanced Technology Development 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 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. 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, 2018
• Source ID: 0603160BR_3_0400_PB_2018
• Change Summary Explanation: The increase in FY 2018 from the previous President's Budget submission is due to the net effect of a shift in investment priorities to fund the Special Test Bed capability requirements for missile defeat in this program element, a realignment of funds from O&M to RDT&E for the Hard Target Research and Analysis Center (HTRAC) to fund new R&D subject matter expertise to identify, characterize, increased investment in consequence of execution, and incremental Service Requirement Review Board reductions, as part of the Department of Defense reform agenda, for consolidation and understand and exploit vulnerabilities in adversary WMD programs, activities, and capabilities. reduction of service contracts.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Autonomy
• Biomedical
• Counter WMD
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Force
• Combatant Commanders
• Control Systems
• Data Analysis
• Detection
• Detectors
• Explosives
• Governments
• Information Science
• Intelligence Surveillance And Reconnaissance
• Materials Science
• National Security
• Test And Evaluation
• Unified Combatant Commands
• Warfare
• Weapons Effects
• Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

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