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o Agree on investment strategies. There should be supporting inter‐agency
roadmaps to integrate efforts and focus crosstalk. Annual inter‐agency reports
to the NSS should be issued to track progress and enhance information flow. 4
• DOE/NNSA, DTRA, and the IC should rebalance existing investments in order to grow
new programs in R&D that expand activities and the supplier base to include adaptation
of conventional warfighting ISR advances: e.g.,
o Engage in planning and capabilities development, especially for data collection
and fusion functions, for DoD’s efforts to improve nuclear situational awareness;
o Support transition of multi‐INT fusion and exploitation tools to nuclear
monitoring applications;
o Ensure activities related to nuclear weapons and materials monitoring are
guided by the “white team” function as discussed in the previous section and
Chapter 4;
o Make explicit the requirements for, and improvements needed in, HUMINT,
SIGINT, cyber, OSINT, etc., to support monitoring and verification.
• NSS should monitor closely and persistently the resourcing to modernize the USAEDS
with the help of the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (VCJCS), who should
ensure its modernization, is supported in AF budgets.
Test to Iterate and Adapt: Key Findings and Recommendations
Findings: The comprehensive monitoring regime the Task Force proposes is a system of systems
that must work together. It is too complicated to plan or assess analytically or with piecemeal
testing, especially when used against an adaptive adversary and/or one with sophisticated
denial and deception. Furthermore, experience shows that operators typically learn to use
fielded systems differently and often better than system design/analysis would predict––an
effect that would result from into iterative development and training.
Recommendations: DTRA, in partnership with DOE/NNSA and the IC, should develop
comprehensive “iterate and adapt” national testing capabilities which:
• Provide a focal point for planning, iterating/adapting, and operating the system
of systems;
• Help integrate technically disparate and organizationally disaggregated activities.
The national testing capabilities should include four interdependent parts:
• Ranges and facilities (real and simulated), almost all of which currently exist;
4 An excellent recent example of this is the “Nuclear Defense Research and Development Roadmap. Fiscal Years
2013‐2017” published by the National Science and Technology Council, April 2012.
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