WMD Defeat Capabilities

Abstract

The mission of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency is to safeguard the United States and its allies from global weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threats by integrating, synchronizing, and providing responsive expertise, technologies, and capabilities. This mission directly aligns with several National and Department of Defense (DoD) level guidance/vision documents. For Research, Development, Test & Evaluation, these documents include the National Security Strategy, Defense Strategic Guidance (Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense), Quadrennial Defense Review, National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, 2014 DoD Strategy for Countering WMD, National Strategy to Combat WMD, Defense Planning Guidance, Guidance for Employment of the Force, National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism, and Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan (including the Nuclear Annex). To achieve this mission, DTRA established strategies and tasks to meet their principal objectives. These objectives are: 1) Ensure a safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent; 2) Anticipate emerging WMD threats; 3) Provide Combating WMD situational awareness; 4) Assess infrastructure and personnel vulnerabilities; 5) Prevent proliferation and use of WMD; 6) Defend against WMD threats; 7) Defeat WMD threats; 8) Recover from WMD consequences; and 9) Synchronize countering WMD activities. This program element supports the development of system capabilities for the countering weapons of mass destruction (CWMD) mission. This funding specifically supports technologies to meet International Monitoring System technology requirements in support of nuclear arms control activities under the Nuclear Arms Control Technology program. Through FY 2014, funding also supported the development of collaborative CWMD analysis capabilities between the DoD and key interagency and international partners through a globally accessible net-centric framework in the form of the Integrated Weapons of Mass Destruction Toolset.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2016
Source ID
0605000BR_5_0400_PB_2016
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Arms Control
  • Arms Control Treaties
  • Calibration
  • Cost Analysis
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Homeland Security
  • National Security
  • Reliability
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • United States Strategic Command
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

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

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