Transcript Joint Science and Technology Office Chemical & Biological Defense Program Science & Technology COL Ben Hagar Deputy, Joint Science & Technology Office for CB Defense Defense.

Joint Science and Technology Office
Chemical & Biological Defense Program
Science & Technology
COL Ben Hagar
Deputy, Joint Science & Technology Office for CB
Defense
Defense Threat Reduction Agency
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Overview
• Continued strong Department and Congressional
support for CBDP S&T
• Strengthened ability to transition from DARPA
programs
• DTRA re-aligning its R&D efforts
• STRATCOM Combating WMD role
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Preserving warfighter effectiveness
through medical countermeasures
Pretreatments/
Prophylaxes
Answer
Science
Questions
Maintain
Robust
Tech Base
Transition
Technologies
Emerging Threats/
Special Programs
Diagnostics
Therapeutics
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Preserving warfighter effectiveness with
advanced equipment and materials
Protection
Detection
Answer
Science
Questions
Maintain
Robust
Tech Base
Transition
Technologies
Decontamination
Modeling and
Simulation
Supporting S&T
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Principle “Plain Language” Thrusts
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Earliest Warning
– Detection
– Medical Surveillance
– Information Dissemination
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Broad Spectrum Medical Countermeasures
– Pretreatment
– Therapeutics
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“How Clean is Safe?”
– Decontamination
– Low-Level Toxicology
– Environmental Fate of Agent
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Medical CB S&T Strategy
• Place greater emphasis on developing medical
countermeasures effective against a broader range of pathogens
to mitigate novel agent effects
• Accelerate development cycle (rapid vaccine and drug
development)
• Exploit cutting edge technologies to improve medical
countermeasures against established high-priority CB agents
and against emerging CB agents and effects
• Leverage existing capability found in other federal agencies,
industry, and international partners
• Sustain long-term investment in developing candidates for
capability gaps
• Ensure knowledge base to support future technology
development
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Physical S&T program strategy
Balance between requirements pull:
• Align with the JRO to address capability needs
• Align with JPEO programs to address technology gaps
• Answer critical science questions that support policy,
doctrine and requirements decisions
… and technology push:
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Centralize investment in basic research (6.1)
Identify and exploit technology opportunities
Identify and respond to new and emerging threats
Transition new and innovative technologies with JPEO
Maintain a robust technology base: knowledge, research
capabilities, and test and evaluation methodologies
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How we have changed the Physical S&T
business strategy …
Find and Fund the Best Performers:
• Maintain an active outreach to a broad base of potential
performers in government, academia, and industry
• Emphasize teaming and comprehensive approaches
• Allow the best ideas to emerge through competition
• Select the best science and most innovative ideas: no
favorites, no quotas
Exploit Cutting Edge Technologies:
• Find and fund new cross-cutting technologies
• Leverage new ideas from other sources
Sustain Long-Term Investment:
• Fund promising technologies from concept through
transition
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…and developed an overarching science
strategy …
Build a Fundamental Understanding of CB Agents:
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Physical and chemical properties
Fundamental interactions with other materials and environment
Pathological and toxicological properties
Exploitable signatures
Leverage Advancements in Strategic Research:
• Information dominance
• Nanoscience
• Bioengineering sciences
• Multifunctional materials
• Human performance science
Develop Revolutionary Solutions:
• Integrated system for complete knowledge of the CB environment
• Unencumbering full protection
• Rapid inactivation of CB hazards
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FY06 Core Funding Increases
CB.1
CB.2
CB.3
Total
Detection
MSB
Protection
Decon
TAS
FY05($M) FY06($M)
6.3
15.7
62.1
104.3
39.9
60.8
108.2
180.8
33.9
9.1
9.6
5.2
31.0
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43.9
38.4
19.7
8.9
32.8
Increase
150%
68%
53%
67%
30%
324%
106%
71%
6%
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Scientific Challenges
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Develop a fundamental understanding of properties and mechanisms
underlying EM detection of CB agents in order to better identify and
predict unique and distinguishable signatures
Formulate optimal filters for fusion of disparate sensor information in
non-linear dynamic networks
Discover new materials that are sorbent and/or stably reactive which
provide order-of-magnitude CB agent removal rates and capacity over
current activated carbon technologies
Develop a fundamental understanding of CB agent and decontaminant
transport in solid substrates to predict agent fate, removal efficacy (or
neutralization), and material effects
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