Understand (ACD&P)
Abstract
The Understand Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P) Project provides the Joint Force the ability to continually receive information about the Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) situation at a desired time and place by detecting, identifying, and quantifying CBRN hazards in air, water, or on land, and on personnel, equipment or facilities. Efforts also develop a clear understanding of the current and predicted CBRN situation; collect, query, and assimilate information from sensors in real time to inform decisions and provide impacts of CBRN hazards. In FY 2023, the Chemical Biological Defense Program (CBDP) RDT&E Projects were restructured to align with the CBDP portfolio construct. UN4 efforts in FY 2022 remain in Project CA4. This restructuring provided standardization and alignment across CBDP research, development and acquisition efforts. Efforts included in this Project are: (1) Advanced Differential Diagnostics (ADD) (2) Advanced Emerging Threat Defense (AET DEFENSE) (3) Biological Defense Improvement Program (BDIP) (4) Non-Targeted Sequencing Identification System (NSIS) (5) Physiological Monitoring Sensor Suite (PM2S) (6) Colorimetric Indicator (C-IND) (7) CBRN Support to Command and Control (CSC2) (8) Compact Vapor Chemical Agent Detector (CVCAD) (9) Proximate Chemical Agent Detector (PCAD) (10) Surveillance and Pathogen Characterization-Enhanced Biodefense (SPCHAR-ENBD) The Advanced Differential Diagnostics (ADD) is a new start program in FY24 and will determine if an individual has likely been infected and the nature of that infection, during early stages of illness for unknown threats, including biological warfare agents and emerging infectious diseases. ADD will provide timely feedback for disease prevention in operational environments, by quickly identifying warfighters who may have contracted illness. ADD will utilize funding to initiate Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction activities, including the development and assessment of selected candidate prototypes. The Advanced Emerging Threat Defense (AET DEFENSE) program continues to address the highest priority CBRN gaps and supports the CBDP Strategic Line of Effort to meet current and emerging threats by anticipating CB hazards and identifying capabilities to counter emerging and future threats. The AET DEFENSE program collaborates with the Joint Services, interagency, and international partners to align RDT&E resources to determine readiness against emerging threats, to include Non-Traditional Agents (NTAs), such as Novichoks and Pharmaceutical-Based Agents (PBA) (e.g. synthetic opioids), emerging biological threats, toxins and other advanced and emerging threats as they are identified across the entire CBDP enterprise portfolio. In FY24, AET Defense activities continue to focus on demonstrating and evaluating technologies to assess performance against emerging threats. The Biological Defense Improvement Program (BDIP) will enhance the set of biodefense capabilities to significantly improve its ability to rapidly understand, prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from a vast array of future biological threats. BDIP will support the Department of Defense (DoD) CBDP mission with rapid prototyping capabilities to understand, and protect against threats. BDIP will address joint and service gaps and priorities related to biodefense, and will develop and execute a biodefense strategy. It considers the Biological Warfare threat and vulnerabilities to give biodefense the agility and speed necessary to provide relevant, effective, affordable, and sustainable capabilities that can be ubiquitously deployed on the battlefield against current, emerging and future biological threat. The DoD with academia, industry and other interagency departments will partner to gain opportunities to accelerate technology, adopt surge capacity and advance consumable and alternative solution across the entire Biodefense portfolio. BDIP transitions efforts to the Non-Targeted Sequencing Identification System (NSIS), Wearable All Hazard Remote Monitoring Program (WARP), Far Forward Biological Sequencing (FFBS), and the Physiological Monitoring Sensor Suite (PM2S) programs in FY24. The Non-Targeted Sequencing Identification System (NSIS) provides a commercially available, rapid biological sequencing capability with the potential to identify an unlimited number of biological warfare agents (BWA), including emerging, engineered, or enhanced organisms on or near the objective. This reduces unknown identification time from days to hours, enabling decision support to all Command echelons (tactical, operational, strategic) at the speed of need. The NSIS itself is a small, portable device (about the size of tablet) that weighs approximately 5 lbs. It comes equipped with consumables (flow cells) that are small, electronic chips for processing the biological sample. Early testing will include operational demonstrations and user touchpoints with the National Guard Bureau to develop the necessary procedures for processing low- and high-density samples. Unlike traditional identification techniques in the field, NSIS identifies anomalies in Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) and Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) and translates the data on a small computing device, enabling fast and effective mitigation and protection for the force. This capability can determine whether the enemy is using synthetic biology for the purpose of thwarting traditional medical countermeasures or current detection/identification devices. FY24 funding will be used for initial test articles, initial verification and validation of current commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions, and nominal program support costs. The Physiological Monitoring Sensor Suite (PM2S) is a new start program in FY24 that transitions out of the BDIP effort. It will develop CBRN exposure software algorithms that analyze physiological data collected from wearable sensors. These algorithms will provide commanders with actionable information to maximize warfighter readiness, performance, and enhance resiliency before, during, and after CBRN operations. Capabilities developed will integrate with the Chemical and Biological Wearables - Enhanced Biodefense (CB WEARABLES-ENBD) solution set to enable the Joint force to conduct force-wide monitoring to detect the presence or predict initial onset of CBRN threats under an integrated layered defense approach. The Colorimetric Indicator (C-IND) is a new start program in FY24 and will provide the General Forces with low-cost, easy to use, higher confidence liquid, solid and vapor hazard detection capabilities for traditional and emerging (e.g. PBAs, NTAs in various states of matter) chemical hazards. The intent of the C-IND program is to provide improved hazard detection and classification performance with reduced false alarm rate, and potential for integration onto unmanned platforms. The C-IND was submitted as a new start pending new requirements to be developed. The C-IND program will provide a significantly better M256 Vapor Card that will address emerging and traditional threats (e.g. PBAs, NTAs in various states of matter) as well as drastically improve the usability/training burden that is associated with current Vapor Card as the recognized chemical unmasking tool. In FY24, C-IND will initiate and conduct table top exercises to inform stakeholder's of requirements and fund technology maturation risk reduction (TMRR) testing activities. The CBRN Support to Command and Control (CSC2) is the overarching System of Systems (SoS) software that provides for the interoperability and integration of CBRN and non-CBRN sensors to achieve needed situational awareness and understanding to accomplish CBRN integrated layered defense, interdependent with Service Computing Environments. CSC2 will establish Service and Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) compatible CBRN Concept of Employment (COE) architecture and deployment environments. FY24 consolidates Modernization CBRN Information Systems (MOD CBRN IS) with CSC2 for continuous engineering of the currently deployed legacy CBRN information systems and synchronization for the sunset of legacy capabilities with the deployment of CSC2. In FY24, CSC2 will continue software developmental testing and start operational testing to support the continuous development, integration, engineering, and delivery of Minimal Viable Capability Releases (MVCR). The Compact Vapor Chemical Agent Detector (CVCAD) is designed to be an unobtrusive, low-profile chemical detection capability that will continuously, and autonomously, monitor and alert general and specialized units to an unsafe environment without further burdening the warfighters payload or interfering with the primary mission. The small form factor (less than 2 lbs.) is amenable to both man-worn and unmanned aerial or ground system operations to enable timely personnel protective action and other force protection decisions. In FY24, the CVCAD will continue efforts under UN5 to work engineering manufacturing and development. The Proximate Chemical Agent Detector (PCAD) will be a handheld standoff, liquid and solid trace chemical agent detector to detect a wide range of chemical threats. The technology will provide detection and location of chemical agents on various surfaces and under a variety of environmental conditions. FY24 funding develops a handheld non-contact prototype for trace chemical detection on various surfaces, supports transition of developed prototypes from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency Joint Science and Technology Office, and conducts developmental testing of breadboard prototypes. The Surveillance and Pathogen Characterization-Enhanced Biodefense (SPCHAR-ENBD) will utilize Pathogenicity Studies to investigate development of disease of CBRN threat agents and verify usefulness of these disease models. Results from these studies will be utilized to identify targets for MCM (Medical Countermeasures) development, testing, and identify groups of CBRN threat agents that can be treated by broad-spectrum MCMs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- UN4_0603884BP_4_0400_PB_2024
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