Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction Advanced Technology Development

Abstract

The Advanced Technology Development portfolio is aligned with strategic planning objectives as well as with Science and Technology (S&T) investment direction established annually by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). The objectives directly support policy and planning guidance from the Executive Office of the President, the Department of Defense (DoD), and the broader Weapons of Mass Destruction (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, 2021
• Source ID: 0603160BR_3_0400_PB_2021
• Change Summary Explanation: The Congressional reduction in FY 2020 is for excess and unjustified growth. The increase in FY 2021 from the previous President's Budget submission is due to increased investment in WMD counterterrorism activities including the improvement of Combatant Commanders' offensive capabilities for render safe, pathway defeat, critical infrastructure defeat, and improved CWMD Joint Intelligence Preparation of the Operational Environment (JIPOE) and Preparation of the Environment (PE) capabilities. This increase also supports efforts to develop, integrate, demonstrate, and transition CWMD advanced sensors, surveillance, and defeat planning technologies in support of the warfighter. DTRA intends to increase research and development in CWMD target assessment technologies including tools for the characterization of CWMD targets across all Combatant Commands. Additionally, DTRA realigned of the CWMD situational awareness for the CWMD Information Integration Cell (CIIC) from program element 0602718BR to better reflect the nature of this activity.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Counter WMD

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Combatant Commanders
• Command And Control
• Command And Control Systems
• Contingency Operations (Military)
• Control Systems
• Counterterrorism
• Detection
• Detectors
• Governments
• Information Exchange
• Information Science
• Test And Evaluation
• Unified Combatant Commands
• United States Strategic Command
• Warfare
• Weapons Effects
• Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

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