CWMD TECHNOLOGIES AND CAPABILITIES DEVELOPMENT
Abstract
Counter WMD Technologies and Capabilities Development project develops advanced technologies and weapon concepts and validates their applicability to CWMD. Research encompasses the following areas: Defeat Technologies supports Combatant Commands through research, development, and transition of offensive weapons and other capabilities to combat WMD while mitigating collateral contamination effects. Enable rapid capability delivery supports urgent warfighter operational requirements in countering WMD and emerging threats, often below the level of armed conflict. This research develops and delivers urgent CWMD capabilities to provide Combatant Commands a competitive advantage against WMD-capable adversaries with a focus on innovative, agile, achievable, and effective technology solutions for DoD sensitive and classified programs, Combatant Command hybrid warfare support, and competition below the level of armed conflict. Counter emergent threat technologies research develops and transitions a full spectrum of new technologies to counter emergent WMD threats providing combatant commanders improved offensive capabilities in support of near-peer emerging threats and counter-proliferation missions that combat weapons of mass destruction. This research supports the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) in two areas: (1) counter proliferation research is a collaborative effort to develop advanced, warfighter-unique technologies to defeat WMD development and acquisition pathways, to include defeat of the devices themselves, while minimizing risks to U.S. forces; and (2) counter emerging threats concepts and technologies to integrate and synchronize activities that prevent violent extremist organizations and rogue nation states from developing, acquiring, proliferating, or using WMD. This effort supports Commander, USSOCOM responsibilities under the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Unified Command Plan. Counterforce technologies research develops, integrates, demonstrates, and transitions advanced sensors, surveillance, and target defeat planning technologies to enable the warfighter to hold WMD-related targets at risk. There are three core research efforts in this project: Technical Reconnaissance; Countering WMD (CWMD) weapons effects; and, Applied CWMD Computational, Physical and Life Science Research. Target assessment technologies research develops, applies, and transitions processes and technologies providing advanced capabilities in the areas of Nuclear Advanced Automated Target Development (N-A2TD), WMD Targets Immersive Mission Planning (TIMP), and Full Dimensional Defeat Enterprise (FDDE). N-A2TD automates intelligence input to provide more realistic target input parameters incorporating 3-D models. WMD-TIMP provides an interactive virtual reality platform for mission planning that mitigates impact of characterization uncertainty by allowing mission planners to execute multiple planning iterations with varied uncertainty parameters. FDDE aims to develop an enterprise capability for finding and identifying a facility, characterizing its function and physical layout, determining current or future vulnerabilities to available defeat mechanisms, planning and executing an attack, assessing damage, and denying reconstitution efforts. The dynamic capabilities encompassed in this effort provide Combatant Commands (CCMDs) and the intelligence community tools and processes needed to hold at risk high value hard targets and WMD targets possessed by adversaries.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- RG_0603160BR_3_0400_PB_2024