Chemical and Biological Defense Program - Advanced Development
Abstract
This program element (PE) resources Advanced Technology Development across the Understand, Protect, Mitigate, and Enabling Investments portfolios. Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP) investments provide an integrated, layered capability to enable Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) missions ranging from combat operations to Department of Defense (DoD) support to domestic incident prevention and response. The Projects in this PE demonstrate technologies supporting the transition to advanced component development for physical capabilities, which cover chemical and biological (CB) detection, situational awareness and effects modeling, and protection and hazard mitigation. FY25 funding accelerates characterization and situational awareness of emerging biothreats and accelerates delivery of improved protection from and mitigation of biothreats, including rapid repurposing of available therapeutics and development of new vaccines. Individual Projects include: - Understand (UN3): Demonstration of enhanced chemical detection capabilities for aerosols and non-traditional agents, expanded capabilities for biosurveillance in pathogen detection and diagnosis, produce biological diagnostic arrays and reagents and diagnostic device platforms. - Protect (PT3): Production of pretreatment candidates for bacterial, viral, and toxin threats. - Mitigate (MT3): Production of therapeutic candidates for bacterial, viral, and toxin threats. - Enabling Investments (EN3): Demonstrations of CB defense technologies, including biological detection, chemical detection, and decontamination, including non-traditional agents. Continued efforts to enhance the military operational capability, concepts of operation, and WMD elimination. - Emerging Threats (ET3): identify and develop scientific solutions or to modernize capabilities that allow for a more rapid response to emerging threats. CBDP Science and Technology (S&T) Applied Research Performers: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM CBC), 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), and Department of Energy Laboratories such as Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), among others. The intent is to maintain strategic partnerships with the DoD Service communities & the interagency for mission success across the enterprise through collaborative planning and programming maintaining budget assurance. Work conducted under this PE will transition to and will provide risk reduction for Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (PE 0603884BP) and System Development and Demonstration (PE 0604384BP) activities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- 0603384BP_3_0400_PB_2025
- Change Summary Explanation
- Funding: FY 2023 (-$5.012 Million): Transfer of funding to support Small Business Innovative Research/Small Business Technology Transfer efforts. FY 2025 (-$43.019 Million): The decrease in Budget Activity 3/Advanced Technology Development aligns to revised FY2025 CB Incident Preparedness and Response planning priorities (-$24.500 Million) and an Advanced Technology Development adjustment to support DoD high priority efforts (-$18.519 Million). Schedule: N/A Technical: N/A
- Service Agency Name
- Chemical and Biological Defense Program
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