Advanced Energetics & Counter WMD Weapons
Abstract
The Counter Weapon of Mass Destruction Hard Target Defeat (CWMD HTD) Weapons Development project develops, matures, and demonstrates innovative kinetic and non-kinetic weapon capability for the physical or functional defeat of WMD agents, processes, and support networks with a minimum of collateral effects from incidental release of agent. This is directly linked to the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) priority objectives to prevent and deter conflict and prepare to defeat adversaries and succeed in a wide range of contingencies, and the key missions of deter and defeat aggression in anti-access environments; and prevent proliferation and counter weapons of mass destruction. It does so through the systematic identification and maturation of advanced technologies capable of defeating WMD agents or agent based processes, then integrating the technologies into the weapons and delivery systems most relevant to the COCOMs’ WMD Defeat CONOPS for their Area of Responsibility (AOR). The primary focus of current efforts is defeating an adversary's WMD capability protected in the confines of hardened and protected bunker and tunnel facilities. Included in this program is the development of offensive defeat capabilities, WMD agent/agent-based process simulants, test infrastructure, and sampling capability required for effective development, testing, and evaluation of the next generation capability as well as the advanced modeling and simulation necessary for ensuring optimum weapon solutions are achieved based on this technology. The program addresses requirements delineated in the QDR and Strategic Planning Guidance as codified in Joint Capability Integrated Development (JCID) documents, Service requirements documents, and COCOMs and Agency Priority Lists for lethal and non-lethal C-WMD capability. The efforts contained in the program further develop, mature, and demonstrate technology and weapon system concepts that greatly enhance the warfighters' capability to defeat the spectrum of weapons of mass destruction in hard and deeply buried targets (HDBTs) and elsewhere throughout the lifecycle functions from production to weaponization, storage, and employment. The program’s investment approach is based on a strategic top-down analysis of threat vulnerabilities and aligned with stated organizational core competencies and lines of operations aimed at the defeat of (1) the chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threat materials, (2) the ability to deliver the same, and (3) the support networks, both physical and non-physical, enabling both. The program places a high priority on understanding, characterizing, and validating potential weapon effects within some mathematical confidence as it relates to the unintended release of hazardous threat materials. Our end-state is to provide COCOMs with accurate and timely WMD defeat expertise, tailored technologies, and customized solutions that provide offensive weapons and capabilities to combat WMD in any target while mitigating collateral contamination effects. Without these capabilities our nation cannot effectively hold at risk our adversaries’ WMD capabilities thus giving them strategic advantage. The decrease from FY 2012 to FY 2013 represents an efficiency reduction to contract support services as part of the DoD reform agenda to reduce reliance on service support contractors.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- RG_0602718BR_2_0400_PB_2013
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