WMD Defeat Capabilities

Abstract

The Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Defeat Capabilities program extends nuclear and radiological modeling and simulation development to system development and demonstration by developing nuclear and radiological assessment modeling tools and WMD integrated architecture to support military operational planning, weapon effects predictions, and strategic system design decisions; consolidate validated Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) modeling tools into net-centric environment for integrated functionality capable of predicting system responses to nuclear and radiological weapons producing electromagnetic, thermal, blast, shock and radiation environments in addition to chemical, biological, and conventional weapons. Key systems/environments include space assets, missiles, structures, networks, urban areas, and humans. Efforts within this program element are rebalanced to enhance corporate capabilities in Program Element (PE) 0602718BR and PE 0603160BR to support Project RF – Detection Technology. The impacts delay full 3-D modeling and simulation efforts for electromagnetic pulse (EMP) response and consequence management predictions, to include second and third order effects.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2011
• Source ID: 0605000BR_5_0400_PB_2011
• Change Summary Explanation: The decrease in funding between FY 2009 and FY 2010 reflects the rebalancing of projects to refocus research and development efforts to meet the 21st century Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) needs in the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Basic Research Initiative and WMD Defeat Technologies programs. Efforts within this program element (PE) are rebalanced to enhance corporate capabilities in PE 0602718BR and PE 0603160BR to support Project RF – Detection Technology. The impacts delay full 3-D modeling and simulation efforts for electromagnetic pulse (EMP) response and consequence management predictions, to include second and third order effects. The DoD did not estimate FY 2011 costs when the FY 2010 President's Budget was prepared. There is a FY 2011 decrease that reflects the internal functional transfer of advisory and assistance services from DTRA’s Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Defense-Wide account to the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide account. This transfer reflects the internal functional realignment of advisory and assistance services and other business-related costs that were formerly captured under DTRA’s Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, Defense-Wide account to the Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide account. As part of DTRA’s continued effort to integrate and refine its functions and activities, this transfer more appropriately aligns this funding to the proper appropriation. At the Agency level, this functional transfer between appropriations will have a zero sum impact to these budget line items. An additional decrease of $.026 million is associated with changes in the inflation rates and therefore is a price change, not a program change.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Counter WMD

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Command And Control
• Contracts
• Cost Analysis
• Department Of Defense
• Electrical Grids
• Electromagnetic Pulses
• Load Monitoring
• Nuclear Weapons
• Simulations
• Test And Evaluation
• Three Dimensional
• United States Strategic Command
• Urban Areas
• Weapons
• Weapons Effects
• 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

• Space