Target Assessment Technologies

Abstract

For some hard and deeply buried targets, physical destruction is neither possible, nor practical, with current conventional weapons and employment techniques. It may be possible, however, to achieve target defeat objectives by denying or disrupting the mission or function of the target facility. Functional defeat, however, requires more information, more detailed analysis of the target. The functional defeat process includes finding and identifying a facility, characterizing its function and physical layout, determining its vulnerabilities to available weapons, planning and executing an attack, assessing damage, and if necessary, suppressing reconstitution efforts and re-attacking the facility. Target Assessment Technologies provides the Combatant Commands and the Intelligence Community with technologies and processes to find and characterize Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) targets located in underground facilities and then, in near-real-time, assess the results of attacks against those targets. Overall objectives are to develop new methodologies, processes and technologies for detecting, locating, identifying, physically and functionally characterizing, modeling, and assessing new and existing hard and deeply buried targets to support either physical or functional defeat. Extending this activity and applying these processes to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) target characterization and threat analysis presents the next technical challenge. The Target Assessment Technologies project now consists of three subordinate and related activities: (1) Targeting and Intelligence Community Technology Development; (2) Find, Characterize, Assess Technology Development; and (3) Counter-WMD Analysis Cell (C-WAC) Technology Support. Follow-on funding for this project can be found in the Proliferation Prevention and Defeat; 0603160BR, budget exhibit.

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Document Details

Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2013
Source ID
RT_0602718BR_2_0400_PB_2013

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  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.

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