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. 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) Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear 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 Biological Defense (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. In FY25, the ADD program will continue Technology Maturation and Risk reduction for ADD candidate technologies. The Advanced and 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 chemical and biological hazards and identifying capabilities to counter emerging and future threats. The AET Defense program collaborates with the Joint Services and interagency to align RDT&E resources to determine readiness against emerging threats as they are identified across the entire CBDP enterprise portfolio. In FY25 and beyond, 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 threats. 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. NSIS reduces identification time from days to hours, enabling decision support to all Command echelons. The NSIS is a small, portable device equipped with consumable flow cells that are small, electronic chips for processing the biological sample. NSIS identifies biological anomalies and translates the data on a laptop computer, 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. FY25 funding will award contracts for prototyping, conduct developmental tests, and complete soldier touchpoints. The Physiological Monitoring Sensor Suite (PM2S) is a new start program in FY24. It develops CBRN exposure software algorithms that analyze physiological data collected from wearable sensors. These algorithms provide commanders with actionable information to maximize warfighter readiness, performance, and enhance resiliency before, during, and after CBRN operations. FY25 BA4 efforts finish development of a joint service algorithm software environment that enables the integration, packaging, and DoD-wide deployment of algorithms transitioned from DTRA JSTO and service wearables S&T partners. This software environment will install on the hardware-focused Chemical and Biological Wearables - Enhanced Biodefense (CB WEARABLES-ENBD) solution set, which will provide an additional layer of sensing to rapidly detect CBRN threats across the joint forces, decrease risk to mission, and risk to force. The Colorimetric Indicator Kit (C-IND) is a new start program in FY24 and will provide improved hazard detection and classification performance with reduced false alarm rate, and potential for integration onto unmanned platforms. The intent of this package is to provide the General Forces a low-cost, easy to use, higher confidence liquid, solid and vapor hazard detection capabilities for traditional and emerging chemical hazards. These improved decisions will reduce casualties and improve the combat effectiveness of troops engaged in conflicts involving the use of chemical hazards. C-IND will ease the warfighter from current training and operational burden. FY25 funding will fund program development, technology readiness assessment, and program management support. This will include coordination with Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) on awarding contracts for C-IND in the Science and Technology (S&T) efforts that will transition to technology maturation risk reduction (TMRR) in the future. FY25 will also support the development of a draft capability development document (CDD) for C-IND. 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 Common Operating Environment (COE) architecture and deployment environments. FY25 maintains the continuous engineering of the currently fielded CBRN information systems and synchronization for the sunset of these capabilities with the deployment of CSC2. Compact Vapor Chemical Agent Detector (CVCAD) is 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 CVCAD will warn CBRN and non-CBRN forces of Chemical Weapon Agent (CWA), Toxic Industrial Chemical (TIC), or confined space hazards to inform immediate force protection decisions. The small form factor (less than 2 pounds) is amenable to both man-worn and unmanned aerial or ground system operations to enable timely personnel protective action and other force protection decisions. The Proximate Chemical Agent Detector (PCAD) is developing a Non-Trace and Trace capabilities. Non-Trace will provide the services with a handheld point and interrogate device that identifies visible liquid and solid chemical threats on surfaces at standoff (non-contact) distances. The PCAD Trace will provide the services with a handheld device that will rapidly scan an area to locate, detect and identify non-visible solid and liquid threats on surfaces at standoff (non-contact) distances. 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. The program will complete work on Botulinum Neurotoxin and pivot to address Henipavirus in FY25.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- UN4_0603884BP_4_0400_PB_2025
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