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 and systems. This high priority project focuses on support to the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). Through enhancing USSOCOM capabilities, this project supports 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. The following efforts are included: The 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 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 WMDs, their production and storage facilities, and associated enablers at multiple nodes along the terrorist development/acquisition pathway in order to disrupt, delay, degrade, destroy, or deny WMDs while minimizing risk to U.S. forces. The Counter WMD-Terrorism (CWMD-T) Counterproliferation research and development (R&D) program is a collaborative effort with USSOCOM in which DTRA manages and sub-allocates a portion of this funding directly to USSOCOM to develop warfighter-unique technologies in support of USSOCOM’s counterterrorism and counterproliferation mission. New counterterrorism and counterproliferation technologies are developed under USSOCOM management, and in coordination with DTRA, to provide warfighters with the operational capability to counter WMD threats. Under Project RE, the USSOCOM CWMD-T Support Program integrates and federates all-source intelligence and other information with operational analysis to support Combatant Command (CCMD) planning processes related to CWMD-T. Research is focused on developing and improving technologies to ingest, organize, interpret, and operationalize large amounts of data from many sources, multiple formats, and all relevant classification levels to provide the warfighter with a dynamic picture of the WMD-T operational environment. The increase from FY 2014 to FY 2015 was due to increased investments in technology solutions supporting operations in subterranean environments. The decrease from FY 2015 to FY 2016 is due to the deferment of lower priority projects until further maturation in technology readiness level.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- RE_0603160BR_3_0400_PB_2016
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