UNCLASSIFIED DTRA Research and Development Front Office Overview

UNCLASSIFIED DTRA Research and Development Front Office Overview Amanda Richardson August 29, 2019 Distribution Statement A. Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. Content of this brief is UNCLASSIFIED

UNCLASSIFIED An Evolving Threat Perspective Cold War Post-9/11 UNCLASSIFIED Present 2

UNCLASSIFIED Key Tenets of the National Defense Strategy Levels of Conflict Defense Priorities Strategic Armed Conflict Strong Nuclear Deterrent Conventional Armed Conflict Decisive Conventional Force Great Power Competition New Approaches to Compete Below Armed Conflict Security Environment • Complex & volatile environment • Great power competition • Eroding U. S. military advantage Adversaries • Russia, China (revisionist) • North Korea, Iran (rogue) • Non-state actors UNCLASSIFIED 3

UNCLASSIFIED Agency Mission The Defense Threat Reduction Agency enables Do. D, the U. S. Government, and International Partners to counter and deter Weapons of Mass Destruction and Improvised Threat networks UNCLASSIFIED 4

UNCLASSIFIED Network Approach – How DTRA Enables Effective Nuclear Deterrence Partner Capacity Building Capability Development and RDT&E Target Analysis & Weaponeering Identify opportunities for USG & partner action Network Analysis to understand threats Our mission requires agile, integrated solutions UNCLASSIFIED 5

UNCLASSIFIED DTRA Organization Chart Director (DIR) Command Senior Enlisted Leader (EL) General Counsel (GC) Deputy Director (DDIR) Staff Offices Equal Opportunity & Diversity Prgms (EO) Environmental, Safety, & Occupational Health (ES) Inspector General (IG) Legislative Affairs (LA) Chief of Staff (CS) Vice Director Mission Integration (MI) Research & Development Directorate (RD) Joint Improvised. Threat Defeat Directorate (JD) Information Integration & Technology Services Directorate (IT) Vice Director Plans & Programs (PP) Acquisition & Logistics Directorate (AL) Combat Support Directorate (CZ) UNCLASSIFIED Nuclear Enterprise Directorate (NE) On-Site Inspection & Building Capacity Directorate (OB) Cooperative Threat Reduction Directorate (CT) Human Resources Directorate (HR) 6

UNCLASSIFIED Research & Development: Mission and Vision Mission Provide science, technology and capability development investments that maintain the U. S. military’s technological superiority in countering weapons of mass destruction & asymmetric threats, mitigate the risks of technical surprise and respond to the warfighter’s urgent technical requirements. Vision Be the recognized leader for technical innovation to counter weapon of mass destruction & asymmetric threats – responding to urgent warfighter needs while investing in R&D to shape the Nation’s counter-threat capabilities. UNCLASSIFIED 7

UNCLASSIFIED DTRA R&D Portfolio Aligns with Do. D Strategy for CWMD Do. D Strategy for Countering WMD – June 2014 Synchronizing Activities and Tasks Incorporate CWMD Efforts & Leverage Enabling Capabilities Integrate, Harmonize, Employ Foundational Activities and Tasks Maintain and Expand Technical Expertise Recruit, Develop, Retain Cooperate with and Support Partners Partner, Coordinate Specialized Activities and Tasks Understand the Environment, Threats, and Vulnerabilities CWMD S&T Strategic Objectives* Control Understand the Environment, Threats, and Vulnerabilities Locate, Identify, Characterize, Assess, Attribute, Predict Isolate, Divert, Intercept, Secure, Seize Defeat Disable Dispose Delay, Disrupt, Exploit Reduce, Redirect Destroy, Neutralize Degrade, Destroy Dismantle, Monitor, Safeguard the Force and Manage Consequences Mitigate, Sustain, Support Control, Defeat, Disable, and/or Dispose of WMD Threats Safeguard the Force and Manage Consequences * S&T for Strategic Deterrent is included in these objectives UNCLASSIFIED 8

UNCLASSIFIED DTRA R&D prioritizes Deter, Detect and Defeat OBJECTIVE Understand the Environment, Threats, and Vulnerabilities Control, Defeat, Disable and/or Dispose WMD and Improvised Threats Safeguard the Force and Manage Consequences Capabilities and technologies that… R&D Thrust Areas* Detect, locate, identify, and track chemical, biological, nuclear, and improvised threats Enhance warfighters’ ability to rapidly capture, catalogue, link, and illuminate nefarious activities Increase understanding through high-speed information processing, M&S, and advanced analytics Detect improvised devices (including IED and UAS) and their components from safe distances Improve nuclear/radiological hazard assessment techniques, methodologies, and analytic tools Provide direct or indirect physical or functional defeat of WMD threats, especially prior to weapon use Prevent adversary networks’ ability to deliver and use IEDs, or rapidly neutralize emplaced IEDs Interrupt the acquisition of weapon-related materials and expertise, or otherwise defeat threat networks Enable suitable, field-deployable capabilities to mitigate warfighter risk through improved standoff Support survivable, hardened conventional forces that can fight and win in a difficult WMD environment Protect forces, reduce casualties, and degrade adversaries’ abilities to disrupt operations Enable biological, chemical, and radiological surveillance, exposure detection, and medical diagnostics Provide survivability standards, hardening technologies, and experimental test capabilities Improve medical countermeasures, pretreatments, prophylaxes, vaccines, and therapeutics Reduce size and weight, and increase performance of contamination mitigation tools * Not all R&D Thrust Areas are listed UNCLASSIFIED 9

UNCLASSIFIED Capability Development in Support of Warfighter Requirements Enhance the nuclear enterprise and maintain nuclear competencies Global Situational Awareness and Surveillance • Dissemination of timely sensor warning and reporting with automated, networked monitoring and near real -time integration of surveillance information • Radiological and biological detection and medical diagnostic capabilities for expeditionary missions, detect -to-warn, and rapid field identification of hazards • Rapidly deployable, enhanced low-visibility ISR capabilities that exploit alternative signals and compress attribution, warning, and response timelines Holding WMD programs, facilities, and materials at risk in all environments • Delay, disrupt and defeat adversaries’ acquisition paths for materials or expertise, via kinetic or non-kinetic means • Ability to locate, characterize, secure, and destroy (or render safe) all weapons on a large scale and in complex operational environments Application of emerging technologies and data analytics to WMD • Technology forecasting capabilities to anticipate mid-term, emergent threats and relevant technologies Medical and physical (material) protection from CBRN threats, including conventional, non-traditional, and emerging CBRN threats UNCLASSIFIED 10

UNCLASSIFIED RD Support to CCMDs USEUCOM • MOBILE RAD DETECTION • COLPRO TECHNOLOGIES • NEXT GEN CHEMICAL DETECTION USINDO-PACOM USNORTHCOM • AGENT DEFEAT • JOINT PENETRATORS BIOLOGICAL AGENT DECON • SPRAYABLE DECON SLURRY • CBRN DETECTION SENSORS • INTEGRATED EARLY WARNING USAFRICOM • FIELD FORWARD USCENTCOM DIAGNOSTICS • AGENT DEFEAT • TARGETING / • THERAPEUTICS AND VACCINES • EBOLA MODELING USSOUTHCOM • BIOSURVEILLANCE ECOSYSTEM • FIELD FORWARD DIAGNOSTICS • FENTANYL DETECTION WEAPONEERING ASSISTANCE USSTRATCOM: USSOCOM: • TARGETING MODELS • WIDE AREA SEARCH CBRN DETECTION • WMD EXPLOITATION AND ELIMINATION • SMALL SCALE DISABLEMENT • AIRCRAFT DECONTAMINATION TECHNOLOGIES • TRANSPORTATION ISOLATION SYSTEM UNCLASSIFIED USTRANSCOM:

UNCLASSIFIED DTRA and CBDP RDT&E (RDT&E Categories 6. 1 -6. 5) BA 1: Basic Research BA-2: Applied Research BA-3: Adv Technology Dev BA-4: Adv Component Dev& Prototypes BA-5: System Dev & Demo DTRA is the Do. D Executive Agent for the Chemical Biological Defense Program (CBDP) appropriation Consistent with Do. D emphasis refocusing on RDT&E to regain our national competitive advantage *Reflect total Base and OCO funds UNCLASSIFIED 12

UNCLASSIFIED DTRA RDT&E Summary • Do. D’s R&D organization focused on CWMD and Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices and Counter-Improvised Threats • Responds to national and Do. D CWMD priorities • RDT&E base provides CWMD and Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices and Counter. Improvised Threats combat support directly to our warfighters • Integrated/coordinated with Do. D, Interagency, and international partners • Develops and operates unique and essential CWMD and Improvised Threat test capabilities • Comprehensive R&D investment increases agility to respond to new/changing Combatant Command counter threat requirements UNCLASSIFIED 13

UNCLASSIFIED Research and Development Dr. Rhys Williams Director (SES-3) COL Steven Sexton Ms. Amanda Richardson Deputy Director Chief, R&D Operations Dr. Ronald Hann Mr. Stephen Dowling Dr. Michael Kuliasha Ms. Lisa Swan Dr. Gary Hook Chemical Biological Technologies (SES-2) Counter WMD Technologies (SES-2) Nuclear Technologies (SES-2) Counter Improvised Threat Technologies (SES-1) Enabling Capabilities (GS -15) UNCLASSIFIED 14

UNCLASSIFIED Research and Development Front Office RD Dr. Williams RD Deputy COL Sexton Chief of R&D Ops Amanda Richardson Front Office Technical Reachback Division Todd Hann UNCLASSIFIED Integration Division CAPT Vic Lake 15

Front Office Skillsets • • Technical Skills: Action Officers Supporting: • • Technical Skills: Program Management, Acquisition and Financial Reporting and Monitoring Supporting: • • Work with program, financial and contracting staff to understand requirements and expedite program and process execution within the limits of US Code, Do. D directives, guidance, and policies Communicate, coordinate, and collaborate within DTRA’s other organizations to optimize processes and work Technical Skills: Communications, Editing and Technical Writing Supporting: • • Maintain strong situational awareness of all RD activities Demonstrate forward-thinking in preparing for strategic and tactical activities Preparing, editing and staffing packages and written products Supporting Directorate communications efforts Technical Skills: Task Management Supporting: • • Monitoring, tracking and execution of tasking system Maintenance of records and awareness of all relevant tasks 16

Technical Reachback Mission Provide 24/7 Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and high-yield Explosives (CBRNE) Subject Matter Expertise and Decision Support Capability for planning, operations, and post event analysis to: • Combatant Commands (CCMDs) and partnered nations • Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) • Joint Staff (JS) • Intelligence Community (IC) • Command elements • Other U. S. Government agencies and first responders

Technical Reachback Skillsets • Technical Skills: Nuclear Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, and Chemistry • Supporting: • Facilitate discovery, review, independent V&V, and transition of S&T modeling and simulation tools to Reachback operations, to include international partners • Manage VV&A process associated with DTRA tools used in Reachback as well as M&S accreditation across the agency • Support activities include CWMD DTRA field testing and agent defeat, atmospheric transport and dispersion, Foreign Disclosure processing 18

Integration Division Mission • Integrate RD activities to provide: • • Improved strategic client engagement A standardized requirements management process An agile acquisition capability A data science/artificial intelligence (DS/AI) management strategy • This will enable: • • • Better DTRA/client relationships and understanding and fulfillment of S&T gaps and requirements Improved senior leader situational awareness of solution development RD to aggressively apply DS/AI tools to solve DTRA strategic objectives 19

Integration Division Skillsets • • Technical Skills: International and Combatant Command Engagements, Agreements and Reporting Supporting: • Improve information flow and sharing of RD external engagement activities • Provide integration and oversight to ensure informed leadership, reduce duplication and gain efficiencies • Educate departments to inform office of international, CCMD and interagency engagements to ensure one RD voice • • Technical Skills: Requirements SME and Database Management Supporting: • Coordinate RD requirements validation, prioritization and capability development to ensure integration • Track planned and active projects to optimize resource allocation and minimize duplication • • Technical Skills: Program Management and Acquisition Supporting: • Work with program, financial and contracting staff to understand requirements and expedite program and process • • • execution within the limits of US Code, Do. D directives, guidance, and policies Communicate, coordinate, and collaborate within DTRA and its development partners to develop and deliver capabilities (US Government, FVEY, Other International Partners) Technical Skills: Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Supporting: • Increase workforce proficiency in and access to DS/AI tools, data, and infrastructure • Maintain awareness of the quality and sufficiency of RD DS/AI efforts, ensuring compliance with policy and guidance 20

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