Defense Threat Reduction Agency Technology Overview

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Defense Threat Reduction AgencyTechnology
Overview
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Agenda

• Who we are
• What we are doing
• What we seek to do

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We Are a Combat Support Agency with Four Major
Components

• Partner with the CINCs, Services and DOE to
  maintain the physical and doctrinal components of
  nuclear deterrence
• Provide the warfighter with the offensive and
  defensive tools to prevail against WMD
• Execute all treaty inspections, cooperative
  agreements and technology control activities
• Help lead and define DoDs role in supporting
  local and state agencies in WMD terrorism
  response operations

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Issues We Confront

• Multipolar world
• National concern with terrorism
• Failed/failing states lack of positive control of
  WMD capabilities and systems
• Many chemical/biological weapons (CW/BW)
  technologies inherently dual-use and broadly
  distributed
• Nuclear deterrence remains an effective, but
  limited tool
• DoD continuing to define a WMD civil response
  role

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A Worldwide Presence
National Capital Region
Russia
Ukraine
Germany
Tennessee
Kazakhstan
Japan
Nebraska
Utah
Nevada
California
New Mexico
Johnston Atoll
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Organization and Relationships
USD(AT L)
JCS
Threat Reduction Advisory Committee
DDRE
DIRECTOR Deputy Director
USD(P)
Advanced Systems Concepts Office
Senior Advisors
Acquisition Management (AM)
Resource Management (RM)
Info Systems (IS)
Personal and Special Staff
Technology Development (TD)
On-Site Inspection (OS)
Cooperative Threat Reduction (CT)
Technology Security (ST)
CombatSupport (CS)
Chem-Bio Defense (CB)
Directorates Technology Supports
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The CB Directorate Provides Direction for
Development and Acquisition of DoD's Chem-Bio
Defense Systems
and works with DOE and DARPA on civilian
protection needs
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The OS Directorate Exercises U.S. Rights Under
Arms Control Treaties
and prepares for future ones
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The TD Directorate Provides focused RD to Reduce
the Threat of weapons of Mass Destruction
provides both offensive and defensive tools to
the warfighter
provides data for EMP, radiation, blast,
thermal, and other effects and provides for the
next generation technologies
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The CS Directorate leads our combat support and
vulnerability assessments
we support warfighters with WMD expertise
across the spectrum of threats and capabilities
and assists other agencies as well
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Agenda

• Who we are
• What we are doing
• What we seek to do

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DTRA is Reducing the Threat of WMD

• Sustaining the US nuclear deterrent
• Developing new weapons and concepts for
• defeating WMD
• Improving protection at key leadership facilities
• Executing Americas responsibilities on WMD
  treaties
• Reducing proliferation risks by destruction of
  FSU weapons
• Creating a bio defense system for homeland
  security

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ICBM Launch Facility Security
SS-24 Missile Removal
Anthrax Dispersal Modeling
Khobar Tower Analysis
Arms Control Inspection
Hard Target Defeat Program Test
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Support to the Warfighter

• DTRA provides support for
• Consequence management
• Counterforce capabilities
• Robust reach-back operational modeling and
  simulation

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F-117 Dropping GBU-27 with BLU-109 warhead
Defeat of Systems
DTRA Operations Center
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Recent Achievements

• Rapidly developed thermobaric warhead and CALCM
  penetrator to support tunnel defeat operations in
  Afghanistan
• Developed force protection technology, in
  collaboration with US Army Corps of Engineers,
  that resulted in saved lives at the Pentagon on
  September 11
• Performed vulnerability assessments of key
  leadership facilities (including Capitol Hill)
• Targeting support weaponeering recommendations
• WMD collateral effects assessments
• Provided Consequence Assessment for full WMD
  spectrum for Operation Noble Eagle
• Chaired DoD Combating Terrorism Technology Task
  Force

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Force Protection Technology
Thermobaric Test
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Recent Achievements (cont.)

• Performed blast mitigation tests that led to
  building retrofits
• Demonstrated rapid stand-off detection (3m) of
  container contents (chemical/high explosive) for
  arms control applications
• Established the National Satellite Launch
  monitoring system

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Advanced Non-Destructive Evaluation (ANDE)
Retrofitted Column
Bare Column
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Agenda

• Who we are
• What we are doing
• What we seek to do

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Where We Are Headed WMD Combat Support Technology
Developing new technologies and means for
unconventional nuclear threats Continue
development of enhanced lethality, long-range
precision strike weapons Expand support to
contingency planning and current military
operations Develop means for ensuring use of
ports and airfields in WMD environments
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Where We Are Headed Homeland Security Technology
DTRA has much to contribute to Homeland
Security - Comprehensive WMD capability
Participate in defining DoD roles and
responsibilities Homeland Security directed
DTRA to rapidly develop a bio-defense system
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Where We Are HeadedNuclear Technology Program
Electromagnetic Protection Technology
Radiation Hardened Microelectronics
Simulation and Assessment Tech
Vision Provide NWE capability through innovation
to meet DoDs 21st Century needs
Nuclear Phenomenology
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Where We Are Headed Weapons of Mass Destruction
Defeat Technology
WMD Facility Defeat - Weapon Effects - Planning
Capability
Service Partnerships
Structural Response Testing
Tunnel Defeat Demonstration (Thermobaric Weapon)
Collateral Effects
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Where We Are Headed Strategic Defense
Technologies

• This effort improves defense against WMD threats.
• Force Protection Technology Applications
• System Survivability

ICBM Launch Facility Security
DECADE Radiation Simulator
Radiation System Survivability Test
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Where We Are Headed Counterproliferation Support
Technology
CP 2 ACTD Cruise Missiles
Transporter Erector Launcher (TEL) in Equipment
Room
Targeting Tools
JASSM
Demonstration Test Beds and Exercises
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Where We Are Headed Arms Control Technology

• Upgraded data management approach/structure to
  improve maintainability, data consistency
• Improved secure communications to increase speed
  and reduce costs
• Web-based user interface to reduce upgrade costs,
  increase ease-of-use
• Enhanced tools to expand user planning and
  analysis capabilities

"Stoplight" Nerve Agent Detector
Multicenter validation of Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR)
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DTRA Is Reducing the Threat of WMD

• Sustaining the US nuclear deterrent
• Developing new weapons and concepts for defeating
  WMD
• Improving protection at key leadership facilities
• Executing Americas responsibilities on WMD
  treaties
• Reducing proliferation risks by destruction of
  FSU weapons
• Creating a bio defense system for homeland
  security