Defeat Technologies
Abstract
The Defeat Technologies project develops innovative kinetic and non-kinetic weapon technologies to expand traditional and asymmetric options available to Combatant Commanders to deny, disrupt, and defeat adversarial use of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) while minimizing collateral effects. Technology development focuses on the physical or functional defeat of WMD threat materials, an adversary's ability to deliver the same, and the physical and nonphysical support networks enabling both. It does so through the systematic identification and maturation of technologies capable of defeating WMD agents or agent-based processes and selecting technologies for integration into weapons, delivery systems, or rapid WMD elimination capabilities. This effort includes developing specific WMD agent/agent-based process simulants, sub-scale test infrastructure, and sampling capability required for effective development, testing, and evaluation of next-generation Countering WMD (CWMD) capabilities. The project places a high priority on understanding, characterizing, and validating potential weapon effects within mathematical confidence as it relates to the unintended release of hazardous threat materials. Technologies with the potential for weapon and capability integration are transitioned to the advanced technology development effort under this project. On a limited basis, technology test data is shared with coalition partners. The decrease from FY2015 to FY2016 is due to reduced investment in next generation CWMD technologies to balance other priorities. The decrease from FY 2016 to FY 2017 is due to further reduced investment in next generation CWMD technologies to balance other priorities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2017
- Source ID
- RG_0602718BR_2_0400_PB_2017
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