ChemBio Weapons Elimination Technology Improvement

Abstract

This program supports the Department’s initiatives to build a resilient Joint Force and to maintain a complete and enduring capability to assess and destroy chemical and biological weapons, regardless of location or operational environment, in accordance with U.S. treaty obligations and support of priorities and tasks laid out in DoD strategic guidance and by the Executive Agent for U.S. Recovered Chemical Warfare Material. The Chemical and Biological Weapons Elimination (CBWE) research and development activities (RDAs) ensure DoD’s capabilities to assess and destroy U.S. recovered chemical warfare material and to deter aggression, build a resilient Joint Force, and mitigate existing and emerging global chemical and biological threats. CBWE RDAs enables the assessment, disablement, and destruction of CBW by advancing materiel readiness. RDAs provide chemical and biological weapons (CBW) elimination capabilities and materiel solutions. The CBWE portfolio enables DoD to prevent adversary acquisition, transfer, deployment, and use of CBW. Likewise, the portfolio’s investments advance materiel readiness and enhance DoD’s capabilities to assess, disable or destroy CBW ensuring the Department has “credible options to eliminate critical capabilities and programs [to] further demonstrate the undesirable costs an actor will face should it use WMD.” (2023 DoD Strategy to Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction). The CBWE portfolio will execute along several lines of effort (LOEs) designed to ensure assessment and destruction of U.S. recovered chemical warfare material as well as prepare the Joint Force for a Future Operating Environment in which adversary possession for WMDs pose threats ranging of existential to tactical, and limit U.S. strategic choices. These LOEs will create options across the continuum of conflict, including materiel solutions for small-scale and bulk CBW agents, and solutions for the elimination of nation state CBW programs and stockpiles. The Office of the Secretary of Defense uses the CBWE Portfolio to invest strategically in projects to fill validated requests from the Services, combat support agencies, defense agencies, and the U.S. Recovered Chemical Warfare Material Executive Agent (RCWM EA). Funding is prioritized for projects that close U.S. RCWM EA and Joint Force warfighter capability gaps. An annual investment strategy is used to meet capability needs. The CBWE Technology Improvement program invests in upgrades and enhancements to fielded systems used to assess, disable, and/or destroy chemical and biological weapons and material. Funds are used for integration of operational prototypes into fielded systems, or other upgrades and enhancements, including any necessary test and evaluation. Investments modernize existing capabilities within the Department of Defense to enhance the RCWM EA’s and Joint Force’s capabilities by upgrading and enhancing currently fielded systems. This program funds labor, materials, and travel requirements, performed by a government agency or by private individuals or organizations under a contract with the government, for activities and acquisitions including RDT&E, assessments and analyses, research studies, education, and other activities related to capability development and fielding.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2025
Source ID
0607162D8Z_7_0400_PB_2025
Change Summary Explanation
The FY 2025 funding for ChemBio Weapons Elimination Tech Improvement is a realignment of funding from the Chemical Agents & Munitions Destruction, Defense (CAMD,D) appropriation account to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)) in order to maintain enduring chemical warfare material assessment and destruction capabilities once the destruction of the U.S. chemical stockpile, through the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA) program mission, was completed. The funding also aligns National Defense Strategy priorities and ensures an enduring capability to destroy chemical and biological weapons – domestic and foreign.
Service Agency Name
Office of the Secretary Of Defense

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  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

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  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Strategic Security Studies

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