CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE (ATD)

Abstract

The projects in this program element (PE) demonstrate technologies supporting transition to advanced component development for physical capabilities which cover biological and chemical detection, situational awareness and effects modeling, and protection and hazard mitigation. Other major efforts support enhanced chemical detection capabilities for aerosols and non-traditional agents, expanded capabilities for early warning in pathogen detection and diagnosis, and pretreatments and therapeutics against a broader set of chemical and biological agents. Medical capabilities (pretreatments, therapeutics, diagnostics capabilities, and drug manufacturing and regulatory science technologies), include capabilities against non-traditional agents. Individual projects include: - Chemical Biological Defense (CB3): demonstrations of CB physical science defense technologies, including biological detection, chemical detection, digital battlespace management, and protection, and decontamination. The Project continues to pursue solutions against traditional agents. - NTA Defense (NT3): dedicated research (both medical and non-medical) is consolidated in NT3. This effort includes NTA chemical diagnostics, medical pretreatments, therapeutics, detection, and protection and hazard mitigation. - Medical Defense (TM3): aims to produce biological diagnostic assays and reagents, diagnostic device platforms, pretreatments and therapeutics for bacterial, viral, and toxin threats as well as for chemical threats, and medical devices, as countermeasures for CBR threat agents. Specific areas of medical investigation include: prophylaxis, pretreatment, antidotes and therapeutics, personnel and patient decontamination, and medical management of casualties. - Technology Transition (TT3): pursues federal R&D or commercially available products to enhance military operational capability, concepts of operation, WMD elimination, and hazard mitigation following a biological warfare or chemical warfare attack. The CBDP S&T Advanced Technology Development stakeholders: United States Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), United States Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD), United States Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, Naval Research Lab (NRL), Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), among others. The intent is to maintain strategic partnerships with the DoD Service communities for mission success across the enterprise through collaborative planning and programming maintaining budget assurance. This PE is dedicated to conducting proof-of-principle field demonstrations, and testing system-specific technologies to meet specific military needs. Work conducted under this PE will transition to and will provide risk reduction for PE 0603884BP and PE 0604384BP activities.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2020
Source ID
0603384BP_3_0400_PB_2020
Change Summary Explanation
Funding: FY18 (-$0.974M): Reprogramming adjustments to balance overall portfolio efforts. FY18 (-$3.143M): Transfer of funding to support Small Business Innovative Research/Small Business Technology Transfer efforts. FY20 (+$31.400M): Increase for Medical Countermeausures Initiative and CBDP Support to Bio-Incident Response. FY20 (-$9.082M): Funds transfered to BA2 - Threat Agent Science portfolio to expand threat characterization and assessments to minimize surprise from emerging and advanced CBRN threats Schedule: N/A Technical: N/A
Service Agency Name
Chemical and Biological Defense Program

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biological Factors
  • Chemical Warfare
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Computational Science
  • Data Analysis
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Equine Encephalitis
  • Health Services
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Vaccines
  • Viruses
  • Warning Systems

Readers

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

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