Decontamination (SDD)

Abstract

This project supports the development of Contamination Mitigation (ConMit) systems utilizing solutions that remove and/or detoxify contaminated material without damaging combat equipment, personnel, or the environment, helping sustain a resilient force posture, one of the efforts outlined in the National Defense Strategy. ConMit 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 associated with decontamination and contamination mitigation operations. Experimentation and demonstration will be used in this phase to reduce risk and inform supporting materiel solutions, Concept of Operations and Tactics, Techniques & Procedures. Efforts included in this Project are: (1) Contaminated Human Remains System (CHRS) (2) Decontamination Family of Systems (DFoS) Contamination Indicator Decontamination Assurance System (CIDAS) (3) DFoS CIDAS Blister (4) Forward Area Mobility Spray - System (FAMS-S) (5) Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP) (6) Mass Personnel Decontamination (MPD) (7) Joint Biological Agent Decontamination System (JBADS) The 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 with chemical, biological or radiological agents and Toxic Industrial Materials (TIM) without posing additional risk to the handlers or the environment in accordance with federal and international transportation standards. The program addresses capability gaps identified within both the ConMit Initial Capabilities Document (ICD), dated March 2011, and the Mortuary Affairs ICD, dated October 2008. Decontamination Family of Systems (DFoS) Contamination Indicator Decontamination Assurance System (CIDAS) is a contamination indicator and decontamination assurance technology. The indicator will be sprayed on tactical vehicles, aircraft, ships, crew-served weapons, and individual weapons that may have been exposed to traditional and non- traditional chemical contamination. DFoS CIDAS is a new capability for the Joint Forces that will reduce the logistics burden of decontamination by indicating presence and location of traditional (Nerve and Blister) and non-traditional chemical agents on militarily relevant surfaces pre- and post-decontamination. This helps sustain a resilient force posture, making the Joint Force more adaptable against the uncertainty in a changing global strategic environment, an effort listed in the National Defense Strategy under building a more lethal force. It will consist of an indicator and an applicator, with three applicator configurations -- small-scale, tactical large scale, and reusable large scale applicators -- and three indicator formulations -- nerve training, nerve and blister indicators. Starting in FY21, the DFoS CIDAS program is being broken into separate CIDAS Nerve and CIDAS Blister programs as the capabilities are intended to fulfill distinct solutions to meet Warfighter needs. The CIDAS Nerve program will address the visual disclosure of traditional and non-traditional nerve agents while the CIDAS Blister program addresses traditional blister agents, two separate threat scenarios that require different materiel solutions, modernizing a key capability to help build a more lethal force, as outlined in the National Defense Strategy. DFoS CIDAS Blister is a contamination indicator and decontamination assurance technology. It will consist of a blister indicator and an applicator. The indicator will be sprayed on tactical vehicles, aircraft, ships, crew-served weapons, and individual weapons that may have been exposed to blister agent chemical contamination. DFoS CIDAS Blister is a new capability for the Joint Forces that will reduce the logistics burden of decontamination by indicating presence and location of blister chemical agent on militarily relevant surfaces pre- and post-decontamination. The FAMS-S program is a new start program in FY21 and transitioning an improved sprayable decontaminate prototype technology being developed under the NTA Defense budget to a dedicated budget line in FY21. FAMS-S will provide Special Operations Forces (SOF) and SOF Task Forces (SOTFs) a man-portable and mobile platform capable of rapidly decontaminating chemical and biological (CB) agents from the exterior of aircraft, helicopters, boats, vehicles, or support equipment to a level that is clean enough for re-use without having to wear CB protective equipment in order to quickly re-equip the force -- maximizing tactical flexibility and fighting strength while minimizing the logistical burden and the cost of conducting Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) and CB operations. FAMS-S system variants envisioned are Large, Small, and Man-Portable configurations that will provide sufficient form factor to enable the SOF tactical forces to push decontamination capability as "far forward as possible" to execute decontamination "as soon as possible" following the tenants of decontamination. The MDAP Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Survivability Initiative ensures weapon system programs at all Acquisition Category (ACAT) levels, as well as non-DoD agency programs such as those programs at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), meet their CBRN defense requirements. This effort facilitates and coordinates the research, development, test and evaluation, procurement, delivery, and life cycle sustainment of affordable CBRN defense materiel solutions for each program's documented CBRN requirements. The Mass Personnel Decontamination (MPD) 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. The 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, modernizing a key capability under the National Defense Strategy?s line of effort of building a more lethal force. The Joint Biological Agent Decontamination System (JBADS) will provide the capability to conduct biological agent decontamination of the interior and exterior of the C-130 aircraft. The JBADS is a capability set that will include a shelter to encapsulate an airframe, a decontamination delivery system (e.g., hot-humid air-blower), environmental control and monitoring system(s), and other ancillary components required to ensure efficacious biological agent decontamination. It will provide the capability to decontaminate biologically contaminated aircraft to safe levels and allow more rapid return to service, rebuilding military readiness and building a more lethal Joint Force as outlined in the National Defense Strategy. Future capability may address biological decontamination of vehicles and additional aircraft.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2021
• Source ID: DE5_0604384BP_5_0400_PB_2021

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