14) CBRN Situational Awareness
Abstract
To enhance CB Situational Awareness, JSTO will expand the types of threats that can be modeled with hazard assessment capabilities to include fixed-wing and rotary-wing drones of interests. These capabilities will allow for single drones and swarms to be modeled. Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies will be leveraged to develop CB focused training and mission rehearsal capabilities that will be integrated into systems widely used by the Joint Force. Virtual training environments will be developed to implement, visualize and account for hazard source terms and plumes generated by transport and dispersion (T&D) models. Augmented Reality applications will also be explored for tactical use to maximize warfighter CB situational awareness on the battlefield. JSTO will modernize hazard modeling capabilities by adopting a modular framework and integrating across Service command and control systems to operationalize Reachback support. JSTO will further enhance hazard modeling by creating a seamless indoor-to-outdoor T&D modeling capability and improve urban T&D modeling to support operations in urban and mixed environments. New state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics modeling techniques and their exploitation of the latest computing resources will be leveraged to increase both speed and accuracy. JSTO will develop CB health effect modeling software and analytic tools to support force readiness and facilitate medical planning against chemical and biological agents. Epidemiological models will be developed that quantify and visualize mission operational impacts from exposure to, and spread of, infectious biological threat agents to DoD relevant populations. Additionally, JSTO will leverage Threat Agent Science (TAS) data to enhance capabilities for modeling health effects and host pathogen interactions from exposures to traditional and non-traditional CB agents. This will provide the warfighter with more accurate casualty estimates accounting for human health effects.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- fe459ea0bb5382c87328f00b98151bf7