DECONTAMINATION SYSTEMS (ACD&P)

Abstract

This ACD&P project supports the development of decontamination systems utilizing solutions that will remove and/or detoxify contaminated material without damaging combat equipment, personnel, or the environment. Decontamination systems provide a force restoration capability for units that become contaminated. Development efforts will provide systems that reduce operational impact and logistics burden, reduce sustainment costs, increase safety, and minimize environmental effects over currently fielded decontaminants. This funding supports Decontamination Competitive Prototype (DC PROTO), Decontamination Family of Systems (DFoS), Human Remains Decontamination System (HRDS), Joint Platform Interior Decontamination (JPID) and Congressional Interest Item programs. The Decontamination Competitive Prototype (DC PROTO) effort will support the JPID program of record in evaluating prototype systems that will demonstrate the best decontamination technology to increase sensitive equipment and platform interior decontamination capabilities and the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) interior/exterior decontamination requirement. DC PROTO will support the development of the JPID MS A documentation and the release of the Request for Proposal (RFP) to support the JPID source selection and competitive prototyping efforts. The Decontamination Family of Systems (DFoS) program facilitates the rapid transition of mature Science and Technology (S&T) research developments to existing Decontamination or Contamination Mitigation ICD Programs of Record and guides S&T community efforts toward meeting the needs of the Warfighter. Leveraging the outcomes of the Materiel Development Decision (MDD) (2QFY11) directed Analysis of Alternatives, DFoS will develop a Family of Systems, to include equipment, to improve decontamination processes, and decontaminant solutions to meet the capability gaps for decontaminating NTA and chemical and biological warfare agents from personnel, equipment, vehicle interiors/exteriors, terrain, and fixed facilities. Tactical, Cargo, and Rotary Wing Aircraft Decon (Congressional Interest Item): Develop the capability to decontaminate a broad range of military aircraft in the event of a chemical or biological attack. The Contaminated Human Remains Pouch (CHRP) will provide the capability to protect personnel handling Chemical (C) and Biological (B) Warfare Agents (WA) Contaminated Human Remains (CHR). The CHRP Inc I will contain CHR from point of fatality to the Mortuary Affairs (MA) activity. Starting in FY12, the CHRP will be funded under the Decontamination Family of Systems (DFoS) program funding line. The Joint Platform Interior Decontamination (JPID) program will provide immediate, operational and thorough decontamination capabilities for interiors of vehicles, ships, fixed site facilities, mobile maintenance facilities, aircraft and sensitive equipment during ground/shipboard operations in hostile and non-hostile environments that have been exposed to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) agents/contamination. To accommodate the array of Service mission sets, the potential for varying system and/or technology configurations may be required. The JPID Preferred System Concept (PSC) may consist of multiple solution sets that provide increments of capability or one solution to address the various platforms and threats identified under the program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2012
Source ID
DE4_0603884BP_4_0400_PB_2012

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  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.

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