Nuclear and Conventional Physical Security, Nuclear Forensics, Resilience, Survivability

Abstract

This program supports the Department's initiatives to Deter Aggression, Defend the Homeland, Provide Nuclear Deterrence, and Build Sustainable and Long-Term Advantage. Nuclear and Conventional Physical Security/Nuclear Forensics, Resilience, and Survivability addresses the need to defend and deter against weapons of mass destruction threats and to safeguard personnel, prevent unauthorized access to equipment, installations, material, and documents, and to safeguard the foregoing against espionage, sabotage, damage, and theft. This program oversees advanced engineering development and rapid fielding throughout the DoD for an integrated and systemic approach to develop material solutions. Public Law, Presidential, and DoD guidance, and Combatant Command and Service requirements drive the priorities for these programs. The Physical Security Enterprise and Analysis Group (PSEAG) is responsible for avoiding duplication of effort, ensuring systems integration, and promoting interoperability and sustainability. The material solutions either (a) lead to a Program of Record, (b) become technology insertions into existing programs; or (c) advance to being a certified Commercial/Government off-the-shelf product. Per National Security Presidential Memorandum 35, the DoD provides the U.S. Government (USG) post-detonation National Technical Nuclear Forensics (NTNF) capability. Per DoD Directive S-2060.04, the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)) is the office responsible for developing and leading the DoD’s NTNF capabilities. The DoD mission to collect and analyze post-detonation nuclear debris is critical to ensuring the USG can identify the source of nuclear material and hold those responsible for an attack is critical to our national defense and security. Internal and independent assessments indicate new capabilities are needed to sustain an effective deterrent against an unattributed nuclear attack and meet the challenges of future threats. This PE is the only DoD research, development, and test and evaluation (RDT&E) program focused on Advanced Component Development and Prototypes for post-detonation NTNF capabilities and without fully supporting these requirements, the DoD’s ability to meet this critical deterrence need will be significantly degraded. Innovative Technologies is a classified project that is transferring responsibility from the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Threat Reduction and Arms Control to the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters. Funding for this project is being transferred in FY 2024 from Program Element 0305310D8Z to 0603161D8Z. Nuclear Survivability will invest in innovative radiation hardening techniques to modernize microelectronics for strategic and space systems and increase the reliability of mission critical systems. This program will result in achieving key metrics, including improved understanding of radiation effects on advanced CMOS technologies; Radiation Hardened/Strategic Radiation Hardened parts qualified and available for space and strategic modernization; Improved mission critical systems reporting; and a Military Handbook for neutron single event effects testing. This PE can fund travel to support the requirements of this program. This appropriation will finance work, including staffing, performed by a government agency or by private individuals or organizations under a contractual or grant arrangement with the government who conduct RDT&E efforts.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
• Source ID: 0603161D8Z_4_0400_PB_2024
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2023 to FY 2024 increase is to restore the baseline NTNF budget to near 2015-2017 levels, it stops atrophy and builds capability. The funding allows DoD to make continuing progress against the threshold requirements outlined in the Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Strategic Plan for FYs 2022 – 2026, an interagency strategic plan drafted by the Nuclear Forensics Steering Committee, endorsed by the Nuclear Forensics Executive Council, and cleared at the National Security Council Interagency Policy Committee level. FY 2023 to FY 2024 funding increase also reflects adding Nuclear Survivability and Advanced Innovative Technologies to the portfolio.
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

• Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• C4I
• Counter WMD (Alumni COI)
• Cyber
• Engineered Resilient Systems (Alumni COI)
• Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Arms Control
• Command And Control
• Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductors
• Cost Analysis
• Detection
• Intrusion Detectors
• National Security
• Nuclear Weapons
• Physical Security
• Product Development
• Radiation Effects
• Radiation Hardening
• Space Systems
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
• Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

• Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
• Cybersecurity.
• Defense Acquisition Program Management

Technology Areas

• Microelectronics
• Space