This DTO supports Land Warrior, Air Warrior, Mounted Warrior, JSLIST P³I, Advanced Development Clothing and Equipment, and Engineering Development Clothing and Equipment.

This DTO supports Joint Service Chemical Warning & Identification LIDAR Detector, Joint Service NBC Reconnaissance System, and Airbase and Shipboard Chemical and Biological Defense.

V-agent enzymes, and acquire commercially available enzymes to enhance effectiveness (e.g., cyanidase). During their development, enzyme components will be evaluated for potential use in surface decontamination of sensitive equipment and other applications. In FY01, the objective is to produce sufficient V-agent enzymes to optimize their use in foam-based dispersion systems. In FY02, the goal is to demonstrate the efficacy of enzymatic decontamination systems for G- and V-type nerve agents in foam.

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Specific technology objectives include the development of microelectronics-enabling technologies and materials. Static random access memories (SRAM) will be the technology vehicle to produce a broad range of radiation-hardened digital and analog microelectronics. By FY98, the goal is to demonstrate and test radiation-hardened silicon-on-insulator analog microelectronics. By FY99, the program will demonstrate radiation-hardened submicron (0.35 micron) technology for 16 times reduction in weight and power. By FY00, the program will demonstrate deep submicron (0.25 micron) technology for radiation-hardened low-power 1,000 k gate array and 16M SRAM technology for l00 times reduction in weight and power.

This DTO will develop affordable design and test methodologies for radiation-hardened spacecraft, missile interceptor, sensors, and optical materials without the use of UGTs. Protocols for each area will define testing for a verified survivable system. By FY97, the program will design test coupons and conduct characterization of optical materials and ensemble-level testable hardware protocol validation testing. By FY98, final, validated spacecraft and missile interceptor protocols will be delivered. The FY99 goal is to demonstrate an optical material systems-level analysis predictor and deliver a final, validated sensor protocol.

This program develops the enabling technology for critical path radiation-tolerant items essential for the Space-Based Infrared System and USSTRATCOM priority weapon systems and C⁴I systems. Survivable space-based systems are preconditions for accomplishing the JWSTP objectives of dominant battlespace knowledge and prevailing in information warfare.

By FY97, the program will continue support of the hard and deeply buried target defeat capability (HDBTDC) acquisition program with phenomenology scale and field testing to evaluate 60 candidate concepts; co-chair an intelligence, surveillance, and defeat assessment working integrated product team to optimize weapon effectiveness; and develop an automated engineering tool to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in underground facilities. Field and lab phenomenology tests will be conducted to characterize blast, fire, and fragmentation environments in tunnels, and to evaluate weapon penetration in at least two rock geologies. By FY98, the program will develop geoengineering models describing warhead penetration and damage propagation, and include a target planning tool in the tunnel module of the Munitions Effectiveness Assessment (MEA). The program will continue evaluation of new concepts from the HDBTDC program, with analyses and testing of weapon/target interaction, enhanced payloads, and target fragility; conduct field tests on target subsystems, including blast doors, vehicles, and equipment; collect and evaluate target and event surveillance signatures; and perform tests and demonstration for functional kill of missile tunnel facilities. By FY99, the program will demonstrate a capability to deny and disrupt operational tunnel facilities, such as Scud missile tunnels, for a minimum of 48 hours; and develop target reconstitution models for incorporation in the MEA target planning tool. FY00 goals are to demonstrate significant improvement in the ability to characterize the function and physical layout of underground targets; and demonstrate a capability to deny and disrupt WMD production and storage facilities located in tunnels for at least 48 hours.

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By FY97, the program will demonstrate a significant improvement in the ability for long-range, high-resolution forecasting of WMD hazards, including capability for high-resolution mesoscale weather prediction and calculation of mass consistent wind fields. By FY98, the goal is to extend the capability to model non-weapon-related sources (including accidents and terrorist devices), and validate the use of such calculations to accurately predict transport and tracking over long (1,000 km+) ranges. By FY99, the program will integrate the natural hazard capability with the capability for predicting WMD hazard health impacts, and calculate mean depositions and probabilities of detection or kill while estimating weather uncertainty. The FY00 goal is to demonstrate a significant improvement in the ability for long-range, high-resolution forecasting of WMD health hazards (rain-out and scavenging). By FY01, the program will demonstrate an integrated, automated capability for predicting collateral hazards to human populations resulting from attacks on WMD targets and possibly the dispersal of chemical or biological agents and radiation. The emphasis will be on operational deployment of advanced weather prediction capabilities in the field. The FY02 goal is to conduct scale tests for WMD source models from attacks by enhanced weapons. By FY03, the program will validate prediction methodology using scaled tests of nuclear weapon storage facilities and hardened targets such as tunnels.

This program responds to two JWCOs, Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction and Chemical/Biological Warfare Defense and Protection. Detection and characterization of agent hazards was the top priority defined by the CINC warfighters in their articulation of areas in which capability enhancements are needed.

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Specific technology objectives include developing a PC-based EMP environment/ coupling code and PC-based EM protection tool, and complete development of unified EMP/HPM protection and test methodology by FY97. By FY98, the goal is to develop a wideband (affordable) SE test method. By FY99, the program will demonstrate new EMP/HPM hardening technologies/test techniques. By FY00, integrated EMP/HPM test methods will be demonstrated; by FY01, proven EMP/HPM hardware and software technologies and test techniques will be transferred to the services.