Nuclear Technologies and Capabilities Development
Abstract
This project supports the development of capabilities for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to counter proliferation and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and to model the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons and integrate these capabilities for Combatant Command use. DTRA’s Nuclear Arms Control Technologies (NACT) program performs Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) to improve the sustainability, reliability, and effectiveness of capabilities related to its operational mission to install, operate, maintain, and sustain the waveform and radionuclide nuclear detonation detection stations and a radionuclide analysis laboratory comprising the majority of the U.S. portion of the International Monitoring System (IMS). This system delivers data continuously to the U.S. monitoring and verification community supporting warfighter and interagency nuclear-event response. The NACT program directly supports U.S. and allied warfighter and national technical monitoring requirements and provides vital data used by the treaty monitoring community, warfighter planners, DoD, other U.S. Government agencies, and international agencies. The project addresses WMD monitoring, implementation of, and compliance with arms control agreement requirements validated by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Acquisition and Sustainment. This project conforms to the administration’s research and development priorities related to countering WMD. Technical assessments are made against nuclear treaty implementation and nuclear event response requirements to provide the basis for sound project development, evaluate existing programs, provide U.S. IMS data, and to access international IMS data required to support U.S. monitoring policy, decision- makers, and negotiation teams. This project will improve the efficiency, performance, reliability, and sustainability of U.S. IMS stations; optimize IMS capabilities to support both nuclear treaty monitoring and nuclear-event response; and improve capabilities to detect, characterize, and enable discrimination of nuclear events. The Nuclear Capabilities Services (NuCS) project performs RDT&E to improve capabilities to model nuclear weapon effects (NWE) environments and simulate the response of systems and networks to these effects. The Enhanced Consequence Analysis (ECA) project integrates NuCS capabilities and integrates these modeling and simulation (M&S) capabilities with operational databases and systems. Together, these programs support U.S. and allied planning and decision making in the event of nuclear weapon use.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- RD_0605000BR_5_0400_PB_2021
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