Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction Advanced Technology Development

Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction Advanced Technology Development, is aligned with National and DoD strategic objectives and supports the Countering WMD (CWMD) mission. The program's objectives directly support policy and planning guidance from the Executive Office of the President, the Department of Defense (DoD), and the broader WMD threat reduction community. It advances the CWMD mission by selecting advanced technology development initiatives that are clearly defined and directly linked to mission-specific capability requirements of DTRA, the Military Departments, Combatant Commanders, other DoD and federal agencies, and international partners. The program also aims to demonstrate cost effectiveness or cost reduction potential of technologies during field testing or simulation at scale.

Project RA within this program provides technical expertise through continuous reach-back and quick reaction support to the United States and its allies across the CWMD mission space. It performs continuous modeling of ad hoc computational analyses on the consequences of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) in consultation with military and civilian planners, warfighters, and first responders. The project also supports international CWMD cooperation by developing technologies and concepts suitable for foreign release. Its planned programs include developing tools to improve CWMD situational awareness capabilities integration into Android/web-based environments supporting the warfighter, providing 24/7 technical reachback assistance, decision support, planning support to CCMD, Service, interagency, and other government customers to support immediate mission and operational environments, among others. The increase in funding from FY 2023 to FY 2024 aims to fund quick reaction capabilities in response to emergent threats posed by highly competitive security environments characterized by diverse and dynamic WMD risks across multiple domains.