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JSTO
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
JSTO
Joint Science and Technology Office
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
Therapeutics
DiagnosticsPretreatments/Prophylaxes
TransitionTransitionTechnologiesTechnologies
AnswerAnswerScienceScience
QuestionsQuestionsMaintain Maintain Robust Robust
Tech BaseTech Base
Emerging Threats/Special Programs
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TransitionTransitionTechnologiesTechnologies
AnswerAnswerScienceScience
QuestionsQuestionsMaintain Maintain Robust Robust
Tech BaseTech Base
Decontamination
Protection
Detection
Supporting S&T
Preserving warfighter effectiveness with advanced equipment and materials
Modeling and Simulation
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Principle “Plain Language” Thrusts
• Earliest Warning– Detection– Medical Surveillance– Information Dissemination
• Broad Spectrum Medical Countermeasures– Pretreatment– Therapeutics
• “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:• 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:• Physical and chemical properties • Fundamental interactions with other materials and environment• Pathological and toxicological properties• Exploitable signatures
Leverage Advancements in Strategic Research:
Develop Revolutionary Solutions: • Integrated system for complete knowledge of the CB environment• Unencumbering full protection• Rapid inactivation of CB hazards
• Information dominance• Nanoscience• Bioengineering sciences
• Multifunctional materials • Human performance science
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FY06 Core Funding Increases
FY05($M) FY06($M) IncreaseCB.1 6.3 15.7 150%CB.2 62.1 104.3 68%CB.3 39.9 60.8 53%Total 108.2 180.8 67%
Detection 33.9 43.9 30%MSB 9.1 38.4 324%Protection 9.6 19.7 106%Decon 5.2 8.9 71%TAS 31.0 32.8 6%
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Scientific Challenges
• 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