WMD Counterforce Technologies
Abstract
The Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Counterforce Technologies project develops, integrates, demonstrates and transitions emerging/innovative technologies to support the counter WMD Mission. This activity specifically focuses on two critical components in countering the WMD threat: Develop end-to-end planning capabilities including weaponeering tools to aid the Combatant Commander's (COCOM) targeting and weapons officers in choosing the proper weapon, fuze, and employment parameters to optimize the defeat of WMD and related hard targets. Deliver modernized, validated and fast running attack planning tools and integrating software. Leverage attack planning tools to support force protection planners and vulnerability assessment teams. Develop, integrate, demonstrate and transition emerging/innovative technologies to provide the warfighter with an enhanced near real-time combat and battle damage assessment capability. Capability is achieved through the development of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and weapon-based sensors, platforms, taggants, seekers and other innovative technologies to; remotely sense, identify, track and target WMD-related threats; perform battle damage assessment/indication of strikes against these threats; and locate, track, collect, detect, selectively identify, and characterize Chemical Weapon and Biological Weapon aerosol agents released during these WMD counterforce strikes. This project supports the National Strategy for Countering Biological Threat priority/focus area 1) Global Health Security and 3) Capability Expansion. The DTRA initiated a Bio Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Initiative to develop technologies and tactics that improve the national ability to search for, detect, and identify biological terrorist threats before release. This initiative will develop layered sensing technologies that can be used within a fused approach to enhance the detection of biological threats. The intent is to provide a capability to narrow the area of interest so that a localized search can be accomplished using collection, in-field confirmatory, and close in Bio-threat analysis technologies. The Technical Reachback support provides 24 hour/7 days per week information and analyses on potential impacts of a WMD event to Warfighters and First Responders in consult with DTRA’s Combating WMD Research and Development subject matter experts. This effort develops and integrates capabilities and processes to support WMD effects and consequences, to include secondary and tertiary effects. The decrease from FY 2012 to FY 2013 is predominately due to termination of DTRA’s Near Real Time Battle Damage Assessment Program for Global Strike. The increase from FY 2013 to FY 2014 is predominately due to increased investment in WMD Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance activities and the consolidation of Reachback Support operations from Project RA-Information Science and Applications.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2014
- Source ID
- RM_0603160BR_3_0400_PB_2014
Entities
Organizations
- Royal Marines
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