The Protection Focus Area develops, fields, and modernizes individual and collective protection as well as hazard mitigation equipment to provide integrated, layered, and operationally relevant CBRN defense capabilities, such as gas masks, decontamination materials, and protective shelters.

Representative Protection Topic Areas:

• Unencumbered Individual Protection
• Next Generation Protective Ensemble
• Unencumbered Respiratory and Ocular Protection
• Quick and Effective Decontamination to Contain and Neutralize Spread
• Biothreat Containment and Aeromedical Evacuation to Assure Continuity of Operations
• Integrated Contamination Mitigation
• Tactical Disablement
• Filtration Technologies (to include Advanced Manufacturing Techniques, and Combined Environmental Control and Filtration)
• Coatings and Barriers
• Chemical and Biological Protective Liners
• Man-Portable, Quick-Erect, Single-Room ColPro System
• HEMP/EMI Protected ColPro Equipment
• Smart ColPro Control Systems

The Medical Focus Area facilitates the advanced development and acquisition of medical solutions to combat CBRN and emerging threats. Medical also encompasses enabling biotechnologies which combines and synergizes platforms for Medical Countermeasures, advanced development and manufacturing capabilities, and necessary assurance offices.

Representative Medical Topic Areas:

• Pre-symptomatic and Rapidly Reconfigurable Diagnostics (Pre-symptomatic Diagnostics)
• Open-Architecture Diagnostic Assays and Platforms
• AI-based and Biological Models to Assess Efficacy and Safety
• Host-Response Assays
• Rapid Medical Countermeasures Response
• Genomic Sequencing
• Advanced Manufacturing
• One Treatment, Many Threats
• Flexible, Scalable, and Interoperable Threat Agnostic Detection

The Sensors Focus Area develops, fields and sustains CBRN sensors, reconnaissance systems, mobile laboratory systems and obscuration capabilities for the Army. Integrated warning also includes enterprise warning and reporting, hazard prediction and decision support capabilities for the collection, analysis and dissemination of CBRN defense information.

Representative Sensors Topic Areas:

• Wearable Sensors
• Decision Support Tools
• CBRN Information Nested with Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2)
• Flexible, scalable, and interoperable Threat Agnostic Detection
• Robotics and Autonomous Systems
• Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
• Space and Intelligence, Reconnaissance, Surveillance
• Modernized Radiological/Nuclear Detection and Identification
• Integrated Early Warning
• Threat Characterization and Hazard Modeling