Combating WMD Test and Evaluation
Abstract
The Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Test and Evaluation Project provides a unique national test bed capability for simulated WMD facility characterization, weapon-target interaction, and WMD facility defeat testing to respond to operational needs by developing and maintaining test beds used by the Department of Defense (DoD), the Military Services, the Combatant Commanders, and other Federal Agencies to evaluate the implications of WMD, conventional, and other special weapon use against United States military or civilian systems and targets. It leverages 50 years of testing expertise to investigate weapons effects and target response across the spectrum of hostile environments that could be created by proliferate nations or terrorist organizations with access to advanced conventional weapons or WMD (nuclear, biological, and chemical). The project provides capabilities that support the testing requirements of warfighters, other government agencies, and friendly foreign countries. It creates testing strategies and a WMD Test Bed infrastructure focusing on the structural response of buildings and Hard and Deeply Buried Targets that house nuclear, biological, and chemical facilities. It provides support for full and sub-scale tests that focus on weapon-target interaction with fixed soft and hardened facilities to include above ground facilities, cut-and-cover facilities, and deep underground tunnels. This capability does not exist anywhere else within the DoD and supports the counterproliferation pillar of the National Strategy to Combat WMD. The decrease from FY 2014 to FY 2015 is due to the cancellation of the Infrastructure Development and Improvement program to balance priorities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- RR_0602718BR_2_0400_PB_2016
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