Counter Weapons OF MASS Destruction Operational Systems Development

The Mission Assurance Risk Management System (MARMS) is a Department of War (DoW) risk management system that directly supports the Secretary of War Mission Assurance responsibilities as defined in the DoD Directive 3020.40, Mission Assurance, with the objectives of creating resilience and supporting critical processes to enable the protection of assets and ensuring defense critical missions across 17 Mission Assurance Related Programs and Activities. MARMS functions as an integration framework spanning multiple security domains that will support risk-informed decision-making, resource investment, and improved synchronization at different levels within DoW. MARMS supports multiple Joint Capability Areas: Command and Control, Logistics, and Protection. MARMS is a joint program and an acquisition category Ill software-intensive and situational awareness program in the agile-based Adaptive Acquisition Framework – Software Pathway.

This project supports the development efforts to upgrade fielded nuclear effect capabilities for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to counter proliferation and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and to model the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons and integrate these capabilities for Combatant Command use. This project encompasses the following related areas: (1) The Nuclear Capabilities Services (NuCS) program performs RDT&E to improve capabilities to model nuclear weapon effects environments and simulate the response of systems and networks to these effects. Starting with Nuclear Weapons Effects modeling and simulation (M&S) capabilities rooted in the DoW nuclear testing program, NuCS augments these legacy codes through integration of higher-fidelity reduced-order models built by DTRA applied research efforts that combine first-principle science and technology M&S and experimental research. Through technology updates to legacy codes and integration of new models, NuCS provides a standard source of NWE M&S capabilities for all DoW users. (2) DTRA’s Enhanced Consequence Analysis (ECA) program performs research and development to improve the reliability and effectiveness of nuclear weapon use. This program delivers NWE decision support tools for use during strategic and operational planning. The ECA program directly supports U.S. and allied warfighter planning requirements, including the Strategic Mission Planning and Execution System, an acquisition category 1A Major Automated Information System that supports developing nuclear and conventional force application plans. The ECA program integrates NuCS capabilities and these M&S capabilities with operational databases and systems and works with end-users to provide a user experience specifically designed for nuclear planning. DTRA is currently merging the ECA capabilities into the overall Nuclear, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and high-Explosive (NCBRE) Analysis Toolset (NATs) program. (3) DTRA’s NCBRE Analysis Toolset (NATs) program performs RDT&E to provide a platform for decision support capabilities related to strategic and operational nuclear planning, conventional forces operating in a nuclear environment, and evaluating consequence of nuclear weapon employment in terrestrial and space domains.