CONTAMINATION AVOIDANCE (EMD)

Abstract

This project supports Engineering and Manufacturing Development and Low Rate Initial Production (EMD/LRIP) of an array of reconnaissance, detection and identification equipment, and warning systems. Experimentation and demonstration will be used in this phase to reduce risk and inform supporting materiel solutions, CONOPS and TTPs. Efforts included in this project are: (1) Aerosol & Vapor Chemical Agent Detector (AVCAD), (formerly NGCD 1); (2) Enhanced Maritime Biological Detection (EMBD); (3) The Joint Handheld Bio-Agent Identifier (JHBI); (4) Mounted Manned Platform Radiological Detection System (MMPRDS); (5) Multi-Phase Chemical Agent Detector (MPCAD), (formerly NGCD 3); (6) Proximate Chemical Agent Detector (PCAD), (formerly NGCD 2); (7) Reactive Chemistry Orthogonal Surface and Environmental Threat Ticket Array (ROSETTA); (8) Joint Nuclear Biological Chemical Radiological System (JNBCRS); (9) Joint Biological Tactical Detection System (JBTDS); (10) Next Generation Chemical Detector (NGCD); (11) Non-Traditional Agent (NTA) Defense Support; (12) the Global Biosurveillance Technology Initiatives (GBTI). The Aerosol & Vapor Chemical Agent Detector (AVCAD) (formerly NGCD 1) will provide the Joint Forces a man-portable system to detect and identify aerosol and vapor chemical threats and will also be employed on manned and unmanned platforms. The Enhanced Maritime Biological Detection (EMBD) addresses the Navy detection and identification capability gaps and replaces/upgrades the 135 Joint Biological Point Detection Systems (JBPDS) currently fielded to the Navy. The EMBD system provides improved detection sensitivity, lower false alarms and a modernized computing architecture. The EMBD program will complete development and testing, integration and production of a lower cost biological point detection system to detect, collect and identify biological warfare agent aerosols. The EMBD provides automated warning and reduces sustainment cost while protecting the shipboard personnel. The Joint Handheld Bio-Agent Identifier (JHBI) program is a Joint Service Acquisition Category (ACAT) III program consisting of two increments to address an existing United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) requirement for handheld, multiplexed, environmental, bio-agent identification. The JHBI program was initiated under the Joint Biological Tactical Detection System (JBTDS) and will provide three different handheld bio-identification systems for the rapid and accurate identification of organisms at the point of contact for multiple mission types. The proposed JHBI systems will be handheld, Polymerase Chain Reaction-based, multiplexed devices for the analysis of powder or liquid environmental biological samples. JHBI capabilities will provide Special Operations Forces with timely and accurate identification of 8 or more bio-agents at the point of need. JHBI 1 is anticipated to serve as a supplemental capability to the BioFire RAZOR with JHBI 2 fielding the complete replacement of the RAZOR by FY20. JHBI will transition out from under the JBTDS to its own funding line in FY18. The Mounted Manned Platform Radiological Detection System (MMPRDS) provides ruggedized, networkable detectors with a wide operating range of detection, including prompt neutron/gamma, for integration into vehicles, fixed sites, and ships. It replaces the obsolescent UDR-13 and AN/VDR-2 for mounted operations, providing warning and situational awareness for crews and personnel, and enables mounted RN surveillance and reconnaissance for platforms such as the NBCRV. The Multi-Phase Chemical Agent Detector (MPCAD) (formerly NGCD 3) will provide a sample analysis to identify, quantify, alarm to, and report on diverse chemical species in vapor, aerosol, liquid, and solid phases of matter. The Proximate Chemical Detector (PCAD) (formerly NGCD 2) is to provide a portable system for the rapid location, detection and identification of liquid and solid chemical threats on surfaces and may be handheld, tripod mounted, or mounted on unmanned platforms. The Reactive Chemistry Orthogonal Surface and Environmental Threat Ticket Array (ROSETTA) is a ticket based sensor to provide chemical detection and identification capability to the Warfighter. ROSETTA provides improved hazard detection sensitivity, increases the number of chemicals detected and lowers false alarm rate as compared to the M256A2 with an array of reactive colorimetric dyes printed on a detector ticket. The ROSETTA program will complete the development and testing of the new detector ticket to update the currently fielded M256A2 kit. The M256A2 technical data package will be updated with an engineering change proposal (ECP) to create a new M256A3 kit. Joint Nuclear Biological Chemical Radiological System (JNBCRS) is the Sensor Suite Upgrade (SSU) for the Stryker Nuclear Biological Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicle (NBCRV). The NBCRV Sensor Suite is the Mission Equipment Package for the Stryker NBCRV and consists of chemical point detectors, a standoff chemical vapor detector, a biological point detector, a chemical vapor sampling system, radiological detectors, and the Sensor Processing Group. NBCRV SS provides the Stryker NBCRV the ability to detect, identify, collect, report, and mark NBC Hazards. The Stryker NBCRV SSU will improve chemical, biological and radiological and nuclear detection and identification capabilities, increase the maneuver speed of the Stryker NBCRV when conducting NBC mission and reduce sustainment costs over the current system. The Joint Biological Tactical Detection System (JBTDS) program is developing, integrating and testing the first lightweight, low cost biological surveillance system to detect, collect, and identify biological warfare agent aerosols. JBTDS provides warning through the Joint Warning And Reporting Network (JWARN) and archives samples for follow-on analyses. JBTDS provides near real-time local audio and visual alarm, and may be employed by any Military User. JBTDS components are man-portable, battery-operable, and easy to employ. JBTDS provides notification of a hazard and enhances battle space awareness to protect and preserve the force. When networked JBTDS augments existing biological detection systems providing a theater-wide array capable of biological detection, identification and warning to support time sensitive force protection decisions. The JBTDS provides surface sampling capability to support sensitive site exploitation missions. Surface sampler interfaces with the JBTDS identifier The Next Generation Chemical Detector (NGCD) is several detection systems for: vapor and aerosol monitoring (NGCD1), location of liquid and solids on surfaces (NGCD 2), sampling of multiple phases of matter (NGCD 3), and Wearable System (NGCD 4). NGCD will detect and identify non-traditional agents, chemical warfare agents (CWA), toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) in the air and on surfaces. The NGCD will provide improved NTA/CWA/TIC selectivity and sensitivity on multiple platforms as well as multiple environments. The sensors will improve detection, consequence management and reconnaissance, and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) interdiction capabilities. The scope of the project includes detection of chemicals a few feet away from the detector as well as at the sampling point of the detector. Additional tasks will ruggedize and test a system for nontraditional agent detection for special purpose units. The NGCD program divides into separate programs starting in FY19: Aerosol & Vapor Chemical Agent Detector (AVCAD) formerly NGCD 1, Proximate Chemical Agent Detector (PCAD) formerly NGCD 2, Multi-Phase Chemical Agent Detector (MPCAD) formerly NGCD 3, and Wearable Chemical Agent Detector (WCAD) formerly NGCD 4. NCGD funded a USSOCOM effort to develop a modification kit to JCAD to address NTA and threats of interests going into the SP SKO and SPU units. The Non-Traditional Agent (NTA) Defense program supports the on-going chemical and biological (CB) defense efforts as acquisition programs address emerging threat requirements including pharmaceutical based threats across the full spectrum of commodities. Dedicated initiatives and projects will develop and transition information, technologies, and capabilities into acquisition options and efforts (e.g. Programs of Record, Enhanced Capability Demonstrations, and Accelerated Acquisition) that account for the breadth and depth of advanced, emerging, and unknown CB threats and span the full range of defense missions. The NTA Defense program will provide essential enablers such as threat understanding; operational impacts of performance trades; and comprehensive, integrated, and layered defense concepts against advanced, emerging, and unknown CB threats. The program will support a balanced portfolio which will target capabilities to reduce operational and tactical risk from technology gaps inherent from emerging threats. Additional efforts in conducting systems engineering analysis will occur in order to identify and consolidate capability knowledge gaps and prioritize required investments. These initiatives allow the CBDP to mitigate risk against emerging threats and better prepare the warfighter to deal with surprises across the full range of military missions. The Global Biosurveillance Technology Initiative (GBTI) will research and characterize laboratory networks and develop algorithms to identify key nodes, having the greatest potential to compress the time between disease event initiation and the production of actionable data. In FY19, GBTI will close. The Targeted Acquisition of Reference Materials Augmenting Capabilities (TARMAC) will track projects of mutual interest, formerly under GBTI, with the Chemical Biological Defense Program. Under TARMAC, these projects will cover a variety of activities and will provide data and information used to facilitate the identification of unknown threats and the development of new countermeasures. Key node data generation will be augmented in direct support of existing programs of record such as the Common Analytical Laboratory System (CALS).

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2019
• Source ID: CA5_0604384BP_5_0400_PB_2019

Tags

Readers

• Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Autonomy - UAVs
• Biotechnology
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Space
• Space - Space Objects