**Nuclear Technologies and Capabilities Development
Abstract
1. Research, development, test, and evaluation to identify, develop, and exploit signatures associated with nuclear threats in support of U.S. capabilities that detect and interdict such threats; and locate, identify, and track special nuclear material and improve detection factors such as range, time, sensitivity, and accuracy to enhance Service and Special Mission Unit capabilities. These efforts support DoD requirements for countering terrorism, counterproliferation, nonproliferation, countering rogue states, and homeland defense. 2. Research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) to systematically study signatures associated with adversary nuclear programs and nuclear detonations gain knowledge or understanding necessary to determine technical capabilities needed to improve Department of Defense (DoD) contingency planning activities; gain knowledge or understanding necessary to improve DoD situational awareness on the nuclear battlefield; gain knowledge or understanding necessary to improve capabilities to attribute the source of a nuclear. 3. Research and develop innovative technologies for the protection of mission-essential personnel, critical military and national defense capabilities, and associated control and support systems during a nuclear event. Research under this project supports the mission critical systems identified under Department of Defense Instruction 3150.09, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Survivability Policy. System vulnerability research develops nuclear assessment capabilities to support operational planning, weapons effects predictions, and strategic system design. This activity also provides the DoD’s nuclear design and protection standards for new and existing systems, e.g., command and control facilities and aircraft. Key systems include the Nuclear Command and Control System, the net-centric thin-line, and both military and civilian satellites and associated support systems. Experimental capabilities research provides the warfighter with unique x-ray, gamma ray, and EMP test capabilities in support of system survivability development, certification, and sustainment. These efforts also support international collaboration, user groups, case study reviews, and the Joint Atomic Information Exchange Group. The human survivability effort conducts research to develop and validate mortality and morbidity models associated with radiological and nuclear weapon effects. 4. Research and development modeling tools to support military operational planning, weapons effects predictions, and strategic system design decisions; consolidate validated modeling tools for integrated functionality; predict system responses to nuclear and radiological weapons producing electromagnetic, thermal, blast, shock, and radiation environments; provide detailed adversary nuclear infrastructure characterization to enhance counterforce operations and hazard effects; and, develop foreign nuclear weapon outputs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- RD_0603160BR_3_0400_PB_2020