Fauci Intelligence Community Release — page 15

August 28, 2007 Future Directions for DTRA Missions and Capabilities To Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction Review Panel Terms of Reference Task Conduct an independent review of, and provide recommendations on, potential future directions for DTRA missions and capabilities, as part of the broader Department of Defense (DoD) and the United States Government (USG) effort to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD). The objective is to develop ideas for future directions for DTRA's role in support of the three major pillars of the National Strategy to CWMD: Prevention/ Nonproliferation: e Building situational awareness of worldwide WMD activities e Eliminating and improving security of WMD, related materials, and delivery systems worldwide, including the possible expansion of Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) and other DTRA CWMD missions and capabilities into geographic regions of emerging security challenges Protection/Counterproliferation: e Preparing to respond quickly, anywhere, to WMD situations, including interdiction and elimination e Detecting, interdicting, and recovering lost or stolen (loose) nuclear weapons to counter the full spectrum of threats, including nuclear terrorism e Building of CWMD capabilities of friendly states to deter and defend against state and non-state WMD threats Response/Consequence Management: e Conducting foreign consequence management and vulnerability and survivability assessments e Enhancing attribution capabilities for defense and deterrence