1. for the Joint Warfighter
CB Technology
for the Joint Warfighter
Dr. Charles Gallaway
Joint Science & Technology Office
Worldwide Chemical Conference
14 Oct 2004

2. JSTO is an integral member of the CB Team
Combatant Commanders
Services
OSD provides oversight
Required
Capabilities
Joint Requirements Office (JRO)
Prioritized Needs
JFOCS
Test &
Evaluation
S&T Gaps
Solutions
Joint Science & Technology Office DTRA/CB
Joint Program Executive Office (JPEO)
Mature Technologies

3. Mission Develop and sustain a robust, agile, and
flexible Science and Technology program
to support CB Defense capability needs
Transition
Technologies
Answer
Science
Questions
Maintain
Robust
Tech Base

4. Medical Science & Technology Physical Science & Technology
We are organized by Capability Areas
Medical Science & Technology
Pretreatments
Diagnostics
Therapeutics
Emerging Threats
Physical Science & Technology
Detection
Decontamination
Protection
Modeling & Simulation
Transition
Technology

5. Leveraging the best in class from across the spectrum of performers
Service Labs
Academia
Industry
International Partners

6. Multiple dimensions to consider as we make S&T investments
Classical Threats
Emerging Threats
Requirements Pull
Technology Push
Medical
Non-Medical
Chemical
Biological
Evolutionary
Revolutionary
Current
Old ∆ ∆

7. Preserving warfighter effectiveness through medical countermeasures
Transition
Technologies
Answer
Science
Questions
Maintain
Robust
Tech Base
Pretreatments/
Prophylaxes
Diagnostics
Emerging Threats/
Special Programs
Therapeutics

8. A systems biology approach will yield novel pretreatments
Non-living vectors for multi-valent and multi-agent pretreatments
Non-injection methods of vaccine delivery
Chemical agent bio-scavenger

9. Lab diagnostic assays for use in forward battlespace areas
DNA arrays and proteomic analysis to identify exposure before symptoms arise
Molecular (nano) fabrication methods to make ultra-miniaturized “lab-on-chip” applications

10. New opportunities for intervention
Antimicrobials and immunotherapies effective against bacterial, viral, and toxin agents
Identify common biological mechanisms how agents cause injury
Design non-specific and broad spectrum treatments effective against whole classes of threat agents

11. Emerging Threats – Anticipating the unknown
Develop countermeasures against non-traditional nerve agents
Develop identification techniques and countermeasures for genetically modified biological threat agents
Rapid re-sequencing capability and bio-informatics

12. Special Project – Low-Level Operational Toxicology
Addresses deficiencies in current understanding of operational CWA exposure
Defendable criteria for detection, protection, decontamination and countermeasure technologies
Valid and defendable toxicity data is the foundation for every Baseline Capability

13. Modeling and Simulation
Preserving warfighter effectiveness with advanced equipment and materials
Protection
Decontamination
Detection
Transition
Technologies
Answer
Science
Questions
Maintain
Robust
Tech Base
Modeling and Simulation
The CBD S&T program supports Service and Combatant Commander's four basic needs: to SENSE CB hazards, SHAPE an understanding of the battlefield, SHIELD soldiers from CB hazards, and SUSTAIN soldiers by restoring operational capability.
The program is organized around a number of thrust areas and research is conducted in five commodity areas: detection, protection, decontamination, modeling and simulation and the supporting sciences.
Detection programs provide the capability to continually diagnose, quantify, and sample CBRN hazards by detecting and identifying CBRN hazards in air, water, on land, on personnel, equipment or facilities, and the physical state of those hazards (solid, liquid, gaseous).
Protection programs shield the soldier from physical contact with debilitating and/or life threatening agents and enable the joint force to maintain high operating tempo.
Decontamination programs enable the quick restoration of combat power, maintain/recover essential functions that are free from the effects of CBRN hazards, and facilitate the return to pre-incident operational capability as soon as possible.
Modeling and Simulation programs provide the joint force commander a clear understanding of the current and predicted CBRN situation.
Supporting Sciences provide fundamental technical studies of phenomena which have a broad impact and relevance to the four principal commodity areas.
Supporting S&T

14. Collecting information, not just detecting
Wide Area
Field of View
Single-pixel
(JSLSCAD)
Threat
Wide Area Aerial Recon
Expand/new signatures for existing technologies
Increase discrimination
Reduce false alarms
Multiplex Assays
Minimize consumables
Reduce response time and logistical burden

15. New approaches to limiting exposure
Develop monolayered reactive materials
Investigate materials for self-detoxification and increased aerosol protection
Improve TIC protection

16. A single decontamination solution for all agents remains a formidable challenge
Focus on technology for
Interiors
Sensitive equipment
Aircraft exteriors
Still struggling with basic science for decon and materials compatability

17. Modeling and Simulation will improve decision making
Sensor integration and decision support tools for warfighter’s common operating picture
Algorithms for aerosol agents in urban areas and inside buildings
Live weather feeds for predictive models

18. Many aspects of underlying science must still be investigated
Understand environmental fate
of chemical and biological
agent
Develop artificial chemical
and biological simulants

19. How does agent actually behave on surfaces?
Study persistence of CW agents on military operational surfaces (e.g. concrete, asphalt) to inform
Operational/Risk Management
Command decisions
Other S&T efforts
Generate/validate data via field, lab and wind tunnel studies
Create modeling tools to support decision making

20. CB S&T is an integral part of the CBD program
Medical
Science & Technology
Answer
Science
Questions
Maintain
Robust
Tech Base
Transition
Technologies
Physical Science &
Technology
Alignment
Air Force
Army
TRANSITION
Navy
Products for the
Joint Warfighter
Marine

21. We use demonstrations to assess technologies
CBRN
Unmanned Ground
Reconnaissance (CUGR)
Biological Network
(BIONET)
Answer
Science
Questions
Transition
Technologies
Maintain
Robust
Tech Base
Joint Service
Installation
Pilot Project
(JSIPP)
Contamination Avoidance
at Seaports of Debarkation
(CASPOD)
Large Frame Aircraft
Decontamination
Demonstration (LFADD)

22. CUGR - Enhanced NBC recon capabilities
CBRN reconnaissance can not currently
be performed at the speed of man
Reliable near-real time detection and
identification technology for manned
reconnaissance platforms
Provide unmanned detection capabilities
- Provide unmanned CBRN detection capabilities
Recon urban terrain remotely
Keep crew out of contamination and of direct fire
Keep contamination out of the Recon Vehicle
- Integrate CBRN detection joint mission specific modules

23. JSIPP – A pilot project for installation protection
Assessed and established CBRNE defense baseline
Conducted exercises and evaluated solutions
Assisted Services in providing installation CBRNE defense requirements recommendations to the Joint Requirements Office
Handed off to larger DoD Installation Protection Program, Guardian

24. LFADD – CONOPS for decon of large aircraft
Tested current CONOPS:
1 hour weathering, 2 hour flight
Decontamination
Results:
Effectively removed liquid contamination surface contamination, but vapor levels remained
Hot soapy water was the most effective decontamination method
Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) detection equipment was ineffective for field use
Sorbent tubes followed by gas chromatographic analysis was effective

25. CASPOD – Seaport defense and response operations
Improved understanding of the effectiveness of CB technologies, both individually and collectively, for CB seaport defense and response operations
Improved operational concepts for in-place forces and response forces
Improved ability of seaports world-wide to better prepare for and recover from CB attacks

26. BioNet - Integrating civilian and military capabilities
Develop interoperable military and civilian concepts of operation
Integrate military and civilian capabilities to detect and characterize a biological event
Provide common situational awareness to ensure timely, effective, and consistent response actions
DFU
(JSIPP)
PSU
(BioWatch)
APDS
ASAP

27. Technology for the Joint Warfighter
Develop and execute an agile, flexible, and robust S&T program to meet validated needs
Best in class performers pursue innovative solutions
Effective technology transitioned to the user