CBRN Operations Force Modernization Strategy-A Pathway to the Future

摘要

The mission of the Chemical Corps now and in the future will be to enable movement and maneuver in the execution of large-scale, ground combat operations in a CBRN environment. Across our three core functions of assess, protect, and mitigate, we will generate near-real-time understanding of the CBRN environment, provide integral protection at individual and collective levels, and negate CBRN hazard effects, thus facilitating assessment, protection, and mitigation of CBRN hazards at a distance and in stride with no degradation to operations. The desired end state is retaining freedom of action through movement and maneuver in the complex CBRN environment. To achieve this end state, we must provide near-realtime understanding of the CBRN environment. We must also expand our sources of information beyond traditional means. CBRN-centric sensing and detection capability must be integrated with all-source information receptors and collectors to conduct holistic assessments of available information and to develop trends. Achieving near-real-time understanding of the CBRN environment may not negate the requirement to operate in a known CBRN hazard; thus, integral protection from the individual to collective level is paramount to mission success. The force must be able to freely operate in a CBRN environment rather than avoid it. This allows the force to exploit opportunities currently considered vulnerabilities. And as a consequence of operating in a CBRN environment, residual contamination must be mitigated effectively, efficiently, and expeditiously.