Chemical and Biological Defense (Operational Systems Development)

Abstract

This program element (PE) resources Operational System Development across the Understand, Protect, and Mitigate portfolios. Chemical 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 support the upgrade of systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full-rate production in order to maintain Joint Force readiness. Individual Projects include: - Understand (UN7): Technology refresh, modernization and continuous engineering of software applications and information systems to shape and inform the battlespace against CBRN threats. Continued development and testing of CB sensor equipment to maintain system interoperability with emerging information technology and decrease size, weight, and power requirements to reduce the logistical burden of associated capabilities. Technology refresh of fielded medical diagnostic systems and associated capabilities (e.g., assays) that contribute to the layered medical defenses against biological warfare agents and upgrade of fielded medical nerve agent treatment system that contribute to the layered medical defenses against chemical warfare agent threats facing U.S. Forces in the field. - Protect (PT7): Efforts to refresh technology of fielded individual and protective equipment that enables the Joint Force to operate in a contaminated chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) environment with little or no degradation of performance. Technology refresh efforts for fielded collective protection systems that are smaller, lighter, less costly to produce and maintain, and more logistically supportable, enabling mission accomplishment in spaces safe from the effects of CBR contamination. - Mitigate (MT7): Technology refresh of fielded Contamination Mitigation (ConMit) systems that will remove and/or detoxify contaminated material without damaging combat equipment, personnel, or the environment. - Contamination Avoidance (CA7), Homeland Defense (CM7), Collective Protection (C07), Decontamination (DE7), Individual Protection (IP7), Information Systems (IS7), Medical Biological Defense (MB7) and Medical Chemical Defense (MC7) are no longer active FY24 Projects due to budget restructuring. The projects in this PE support operational systems development necessary to maintain operational effectiveness and are, therefore, correctly placed in Budget Activity 7.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2024
Source ID
0607384BP_7_0400_PB_2024
Change Summary Explanation
Funding: FY 2022 (-$1.937 Million): Below threshold reprogramming to System Development & Demonstration, Budget Activity 5 in support of sensor and detection efforts. FY 2022 (-$0.965 Million): Transfer of funding to support Small Business Innovative Research/Small Business Technology Transfer efforts. FY 2023 (-$2.442 Million): Congressional Directed Reductions. FY 2024 (+$25.306 Million): Increase for Departmental inflation rate adjustments (+$0.403 Million) and to address modernization, obsolescence and continuous engineering of collective protection systems, sensor equipment and information systems, and CBRN medical devices. These efforts will increase the readiness, sustainability, reliability, and affordability of these systems. Schedule: N/A Technical: N/A
Service Agency Name
Chemical and Biological Defense Program

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Breathing Apparatus
  • Chemical Warfare
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Command And Control
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Information Systems
  • Liquid Chromatography
  • Logistics
  • Mass Spectrometers
  • Nerve Agents
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Protective Equipment
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

  • Space

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