Decontamination (ACD&P)

Abstract

This project supports the development of Contamination Mitigation (ConMit) systems that reduce operational impact and logistics burden, reduce sustainment costs, increase safety, and minimize environmental effects associated with decontamination and contamination mitigation operations. These efforts align with the National Defense Strategy by prioritizing preparedness for war and sustaining Joint Force military advantage and resilient force posture. Efforts included in this project are: (1) CBRN Covers, Coatings and Protective Overlays (C3PO) (2) Contaminated Human Remains System (CHRS) (3) Mass Personnel Decontamination (MPD) (4) Service Equipment Decontamination System (SEDS) (5) Tactical Disablement System (TacDS) The CBRN Covers, Coatings and Protective Overlays (C3PO) program is a FY21 new start with a Family of Systems approach that will provide contamination mitigation capability to critical equipment and assets prior to a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) attack to mitigate the effects and amount of CBRN contamination exposure allowing the Joint Force to be better prepared for war, maintain a resilient force posture, and remain lethal. These capabilities include but are not limited to CBRN protective covers, coatings, paints, and other preventative measures. The program will address capability gaps identified in the ConMit Initial Capabilities Document (ICD), date 11 March 2011 modernizing a key capability. The Contaminated Human Remains System (CHRS) program will provide a Contaminated Human Remains Transfer Case (CHRT) packaging solution to safely return chemical, biological, or radiological contaminated human remains to the Continental United States. The CHRT is a containment system that will protect personnel from the hazards associated with transporting human remains that are potentially contaminated, without posing additional risk to the handlers or the environment in accordance with federal and international transportation standards. The CHRS program addresses a capability gap identified within the ConMit Initial Capabilities Document (ICD), dated March 2011, for a CHRT packaging solution to safely return chemical, biological, or radiological contaminated human remains to the Continental United States. The Mass Personnel Decontamination (MPD) program will provide Warfighters with the capability to reduce the hazards associated with mass casualty decontamination efforts for protected and unprotected personnel, causalities and contaminated human remains potentially exposed to CBRN hazards. The program will develop an array of rugged and reliable best-of-breed hardware in a manageably sized, easy to erect, modular system that can be quickly tailored to different Mass Casualty events in order to support decontamination of ambulatory and non-ambulatory patients, and allow for the processing of contaminated human remains. This reduces and limits the spread of contamination among potentially contaminated population groups through a standardized, modular system scalable to increase capability, aligning with the National Defense Strategy by prioritizing preparedness for war in order to remain lethal. The MPD program addresses capability gaps identified within the Consequence Management ICD, dated 14 October 2010, the ConMit ICD, dated 1 March 2011, and the Mortuary Affairs Operations ICD, dated October 2008. The Service Equipment Decontamination System (SEDS) program is a FY21 new start program that will develop reliable and modular hardware intended to decontaminate military equipment including vehicles, aircraft, personal effects, and weapons to pre-contamination conditions, which sustains Joint Force military advantages and a resilient force posture, building a more lethal Force that aligns with the National Defense Strategy. SEDS will provide contamination mitigation capabilities for hardened, sensitive and/or critical equipment in hostile and non-hostile environments that have been exposed to chemical and biological contamination. The program will address capability gaps identified in the ConMit ICD, date 11 March 2011. The Tactical Disablement System (TacDS), is a family of systems (FoS) that will provide tactical commanders a suite of products to disable (delay, disrupt, and/or degrade) or defeat (destroy) small quantities of chemical or biological materials of concern (C/BMOC) contained in munitions and bulk containers. The TacDS will operate in locations both remote and accessible, during hostile and non-hostile conditions, and within established time periods, to reduce or eliminate the employability of C/BMOC against the Joint Force and/or prevent state adversaries and non-state actors from acquiring, proliferating, or using weapons of mass destruction, a defense objective in the National Defense Strategy. TacDS addresses capability gaps identified in the ICD for WMD-Defeat (August 2010), ICD for WMD Elimination Analytic Report (March 2013), WMD Disablement ICD (July 2017), and the Sponsor-approved Draft CDD for TacDS FoS (March 2018). The TacDS suite of capabilities will provide a new warfighter capability at the tactical level and play a critical role in DoD's ability to respond effectively to WMD crises and C/BMOC. Two products are currently under development; Product #1, Thermite Bag, a man-portable destruction capability, and Product #2, Epoxy Kit, a delay capability.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2021
• Source ID: DE4_0603884BP_4_0400_PB_2021

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