CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE (ACD&P)

Abstract

The projects in this program element (PE) support technology, engineering, integration, and life-cycle cost risk reduction activities (e.g. component development, prototyping, and experimentation) prior to Milestone B. Individual projects include: - Contamination Avoidance (CA4): development of reconnaissance, detection, identification, and hazard prediction equipment, hardware, and software that minimize Chemical, Biological, Radiological (CBR) contamination and prevent further cross-contamination during operations. - Decontamination (DE4): development of Contamination Mitigation (ConMit) systems utilizing solutions that will remove and/or detoxify contaminated material without damaging combat equipment, personnel, or the environment. - Individual Protection (IP4): development of the next generation protective ensembles (e.g., suits, boots, and gloves) which enable the Joint Force to survive and continue the mission in CBR contaminated environments. - Information Systems (IS4): component development and prototyping of information architectures and applications for shaping the battlespace and providing integrated early warning against Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) threats. - Medical Biological Defense (MB4): development of medical countermeasure platform technologies, medical countermeasures (vaccines and therapeutics), reagents, assays, and diagnostic equipment to provide an effective capability for medical defense against biological warfare agent threats facing U.S. Forces in the field. - Medical Chemical Defense (MC4): development of medical materiel and other medical equipment items (e.g., diagnostic equipment, prophylactic, pre-treatment, and therapeutic drugs, and individual/casualty decontamination compounds) necessary to provide an effective capability for medical defense against chemical warfare agent threats facing U.S. Forces in the field. - Test and Evaluation (TE4): critical test capabilities, planning, and infrastructure improvements/modifications necessary to evaluate CBRN Defense systems in realistic operating environments. - Techbase Medical Defense (TM4): reduces risk and establishes safety and tolerability for vaccines prior to transition to System Development & Demonstration. - Technology Transition (TT4): validates high-risk/high-payoff technologies and their respective concepts-of-operations for significant improvement to Warfighter capabilities in preparation for transition of mature technologies to advanced development programs requiring chemical and biological (CB) defense technologies. This effort facilitates transitions of Integrated Early Warning and Integrated Layered Defense products. The projects in this PE support the advanced component technology development phase of the DoD acquisition system and are therefore correctly placed in Budget Activity 4.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2021
Source ID
0603884BP_4_0400_PB_2021
Change Summary Explanation
Funding: FY19 (-$0.434 Million): Reprogramming adjustments to balance overall portfolio efforts. FY20 (-$3.500 Million): Congressional Directed Reductions to the Mass Personnel Decontamination and Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis programs. FY21 (-$25.625 Million): Decreases due to unfunding the Filovirus Vaccine and Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Vaccine programs (-$20.542 Million), the Defense-Wide Review (DWR) reductions to account for programs being terminated or restructured (-$5.016 Million), and Departmental economic adjustments (-$0.067 Million). Schedule: N/A Technical: Provides for critical new start programs, Service Equipment Decontamination System (SEDS) and CBRN Covers, Coatings and Protective Overlays (C3PO).
Service Agency Name
Chemical and Biological Defense Program

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Warfare
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Control Systems
  • Data Analysis
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Equine Encephalitis
  • Information Systems
  • Medical Personnel
  • Situational Awareness
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Therapy
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Ground Systems
  • Warning Systems
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology

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