TECHBASE TECHNOLOGY TRANSITION (ACD&P)
Abstract
This project (TT4) validates high-risk/high-payoff technologies, concepts-of-operations, and reconnaissance and surveillance platforms that could significantly improve Warfighter capabilities in preparation for transition of mature technologies to advanced development programs requiring chemical and biological (CB) defense technologies. These programs offer an opportunity to identify and efficiently mature emerging technologies from laboratory experiments to acquisition programs through risk reduction, engineering and integration. These Advanced Technology Demonstrations (ATDs) and Joint Capability Technology Demonstrations (JCTDs) seek to demonstrate the potential for enhanced military operational capability and/or cost effectiveness. Upon conclusion of the technical and operational demonstrations, the user or sponsor provides a determination of the military utility and operational impact of the technology and capability demonstrated. Successfully demonstrated technologies with proven military utility can either be left in place for extended user evaluations, accepted into advanced stages of the formal acquisition process, proceed directly into limited or full-scale production or be returned to the technical base for further development. This project funds four major thrust areas (one of which is a new thrust areas to address DoD emphasis on an interagency collaboration for biological detection, surveillance, recovery and resilience and is annotated as such below): Hazard Mitigation, Early Warning, Comprehensive Innovative Protection (CIP) and Interagency Countering Bio-threats Initiative (ICBI). The Hazard Mitigation thrust area addresses Chemical, Biological, and Radiological (CBR) remediation and decontamination processes and demonstrates technologies and methods to restore assets such as mobile equipment, fixed sites, critical infrastructures, personal, and equipment to operational status as a result of having reduced or eliminated CBR contamination. The Early Warning thrust area achieves enhanced command and control decision making capabilities as a result of a combined and orchestrated family of chemical and biological defense systems deployed on various platforms in remote locations. The CIP transitions mature technologies to improve individual and collective protection capabilities for U.S. and coalition Warfighters. The Interagency Countering Bio-threats Initiative is targeted to reduce biological threats by: (1) improving DoD access to the life sciences to combat infectious disease regardless of its cause; (2) establishing and reinforcing DoD concept of operations (CONOPS) against the misuse of the life sciences; and (3) instituting a suite of coordinated DoD and interagency activities that collectively will help influence, identify, inhibit, and/or interdict those who seek to misuse the life sciences. The following is a description of specific efforts funded under each thrust area: Hazard Mitigation: Hazard Mitigation Material and Equipment Restoration (HaMMER) - A layered strategy to identify individual technologies that may be collectively applied to reduce or eliminate chemical and biological hazards. It includes a Decontamination Family of Systems that gives the Warfighter multiple capabilities to reduce or eliminate chemical hazards. This effort leverages upon and consolidates Auto Decon and SPIDER completed in FY10. Early Warning: Military Applications in Reconnaissance Systems for Joint Force Protection (MARS-JFP) - A data fusion ATD that leverages early warning technologies developed in Budget Activity 3 (Project TT3) to improve the capability to detect and react to an initial chemical and biological attack, as well as prevent a second attack. Specifically, this effort focuses on force protection decision making for external, cross domain sensors for cueing/tipping, and managing resources of dynamically deployable high quality chemical and biological sensors. Rapid Area Surveillance Reconnaissance (RASR) - A sensitive-site exploration, standoff reconnaissance, ATD that leverages early warning technologies developed in Budget Activity 3 (Project TT3) to survey large areas (whole rooms, courtyards, fields) and assess and identify contamination with Chemical Warfare Agents (CWAs), Toxic Industrial Chemicals (TICs) and Non-Traditional Agents (NTAs). Post Intercept Weapons of Mass Destruction Identification (PIWID) - An ATD that leverages early warning technologies developed in Budget Activity 3 (Project TT3), which addresses both operational and technical issues associated with the capability to determine the presence of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) in the threat payload of ballistic or cruise missile delivery systems after a successful active defense intercept. Comprehensive Innovative Protection (CIP): Demo-Low Burden Individual Protection Demonstration (IP Demo) - An ATD that leverages lightweight chemical and biological protective textiles developed in Budget Activity 3 (Project CB3, Protection and Hazard Mitigation), and will support the next generation Joint Chemical Ensemble. This effort will provide significantly decreased thermal burden correlated with acceptable levels of chemical and biological protection, as well as significantly increase the ability of the Warfighter to accomplish a mission in a contaminated environment. Joint Medical Distance Support and Evaluation (JMDSE) - A JCTD that seeks to develop new detect-to-treat CONOPS enabled by the deployment of new chemical and biological detection and identification capabilities to front line forces. Interagency Countering Bio-threats Initiative (ICBI): Transatlantic Collaborative Biological Resiliency Demonstration (TaCBRD) - A Department of Defense (DoD) managed effort in collaboration with Department of State and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This collaborative effort that will provide a coordinated, systems approach to the response and recovery of a overseas partner nation with DoD assistance. This will include Department of Defense (DoD) infrastructures and high traffic areas.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- TT4_0603884BP_4_0400_PB_2013
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