Counter-Terrorism Technologies
Abstract
The Counter-Terrorism Technologies project is an over-arching project that develops and transitions a full spectrum of new technologies to counter emergent Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) thus enabling warfighters to improve their ability to detect, disable, interdict, neutralize, and destroy chemical, biological, nuclear production, storage, and weaponization facilities. This project supports Joint U.S. Military Forces, and in particular, the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). This research and development support directly enhances USSOCOM, the highest priority mission areas in the National Security Strategy, the National Strategy to Combat WMD, the National Military Strategy to Combat WMD, the Quadrennial Defense Review, and the Guidance on the Employment of the Force, and is therefore a high priority for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). The following efforts are included in this project: The Counter WMD-Terrorism (CWMD-T) Counterproliferation (CP) research and development program is a collaborative effort with USSOCOM where the DTRA manages and sub-allocates funding directly to USSOCOM to develop warfighter-unique technologies in support of USSOCOM’s Counterterrorism and Counterproliferation (CT/CP) mission. New CT/CP technologies are developed under USSOCOM management that provides warfighters with the operational capability to counter WMD threats. The Counter WMD-Terrorism (CWMD-T) technologies program builds upon collaborative efforts with the warfighter. This program develops proofs of concept and subsequent advancements in research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDT&E) and provides multi-mission capabilities that may be applied throughout the entire spectrum of warfare while significantly eliminating collateral damage. The CWMD-T technologies program develops technologies to enable the warfighter to locate, identify, characterize, and access Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) WMDs, their production and storage facilities, and associated enablers along multiple nodes concurrently or simultaneously within the terrorist pathway to disrupt, delay, degrade, destroy, or deny WMDs while minimizing risk to U.S. forces in support of CT/CP offensive operations. The USSOCOM Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction – Terrorism Support Program (SCSP) addresses Commander USSOCOM responsibilities under the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) Unified Command Plan (UCP) for integrating and synchronizing operations and activities to prevent terrorists from developing, acquiring, proliferating, or using WMD. The increase from FY 2013 to FY 2014 is predominately due to increased investment in CWMD-T support to USSOCOM in FY 2014 for planned high fidelity CWMD test article development and testing and increased capabilities to address CWMD information gaps. The decrease from FY 2014 to FY 2015 is predominantly due to reduced investment in CWMD-T support to USSOCOM due to planned efficiencies in tool and application developments to counter WMD upstream defeat efforts.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- RE_0603160BR_3_0400_PB_2015
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