WMD Counterforce Technologies

Abstract

The Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Counterforce Technologies project develops, integrates, demonstrates and transitions emerging/innovative technologies to find, characterize, plan for the defeat of, and assess WMD threats. The two major components of this project are: (1) WMD battlespace awareness and (2) counter WMD (CWMD) weapons effects and planning tools. WMD battlespace awareness efforts seek to provide warfighters with capabilities to find, characterize, and assess WMD threats. This project provides capabilities through the development and integration of multi-mission Unmanned Aerial Systems payloads to emplace sensing technologies, and remotely sense, identify, track, and target WMD-related threats; and, through the development and integration of low visibility, stand-off, and man-portable chemical agent and biological agent intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance technologies to sense, identify, track, target, and assess WMD-related threats. The CWMD weapons effects and planning tools effort develops modernized, fast-running, and validated CWMD planning tools and integrates modeling and simulation software to aid Combatant Commanders’ targeting and aid weapons officers in choosing the proper weapon, fuze, and employment parameters to optimize the defeat of WMD and related hard targets. The decrease from FY 2015 to FY 2016 is due to the realignment of funding for Technical Reachback from Project RM to Project RA-Information Sciences and Applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2016
Source ID
RM_0603160BR_3_0400_PB_2016

Entities

Organizations

  • Royal Marines

Tags

Readers

  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs

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