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(dollars in thousands)
Nonproliferation Enabling Technologies
FY 2010
Actual
Approp
FY 2011
Request
FY 2012
Request
Additionally, the PD subprogram provides developed and validated technical knowledge to U.S.
Government acquisition programs and the U.S. industrial base to support national and homeland
security missions. Technical advances, new proven methodologies, and improvements to capabilities
are transferred to operational programs through technical partnerships, including the development of
special prototypes to assist major acquisition efforts. A four-way Memorandum of Understanding
between NNSA, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, and the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence enables a high degree of interagency coordination, leverages
capability development across application boundaries, and eliminates unnecessary duplication of
funding and effort, particularly in the cross-cutting research area of radiation detection.
National Center for Nuclear Security
PD supports the National Center for Nuclear Security (NCNS) at the Nevada National Security Site
to address emerging technical challenges associated with the Administration’s nonproliferation
objectives. The NCNS will ultimately support U.S. capabilities to monitor international treaties and
cooperative agreements, such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the New START, the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and the proposed Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT).
Homeland Security-Related Proliferation Detection
[Non-Add] [50,000] [50,000] [50,000]
Nuclear Detonation Detection 135,461 126,564 127,800
The Nuclear Detonation Detection (NDD) program develops and builds space sensors for the
Nation’s operational treaty monitoring and Integrated Threat Warning/Attack Assessment
capabilities, conducts R&D to advance analytic forensic capabilities related to nuclear detonations,
and produces and updates the regional geophysical datasets and analytical understanding to enable
operation of the Nation’s ground-based treaty monitoring networks. These efforts are aligned along
three functional areas, as described below:
Surface, Atmospheric, and Space Detonation Detection (using Satellite Based systems)
The satellite-based segment of the program builds the Global Burst Detector (GBD) and Space and
Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads for detecting and reporting nuclear
detonations. These payloads are launched on Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites and missile
warning replenishment, or similar satellites. In addition to building the payloads, the program
supports the integration, initialization, and operation of these payloads. The NDD subprogram
supports the research, development, and engineering efforts to prepare next generation sensors. For
Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation/
Nonproliferation and Verification R&D Page 333
FY 2012 Congressional Budget