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 hard and deeply buried targets and then 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 full dimensional defeat operations. 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) the newly added WMD Analysis Cell Technology Support. The FY 2010 to FY 2011 increase is in support of the Department of Defense (DoD) and Presidential CWMD strategic priorities and will fill critical investment and sustainment gaps across the DTRA CWMD spectrum. This increase is in support of the Counter-WMD Analysis Cell (C-WAC) and will accelerate spiral development and deployment of new modeling capabilities across Nuclear, Biological Warfare (BW) and Chemical Warfare (CW) threat areas, enhancing fusion of R&D and intelligence support for the Combatant Commands.

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Document Details

Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2012
Source ID
RT_0603160BR_3_0400_PB_2012

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

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