Fauci Intelligence Community Release — page 25

- 6 - • Passive Defense • Sensor, C4ISR, and forensic capabilities to detect, characterize and attribute WMD hazards against U.S. and partner forces in peacetime and battlefield environments; • Capabilities to protect U.S. and partner troops against WMD. • Active Defense • Specially developed capabilities to neutralize WMD threats worldwide. • Offensive Operations • Plan operations; • Detect and identify WMD and delivery system targets; • Employ offensive capabilities against WMD and delivery system targets with little or no collateral effects; • Assess engagements. Response/Consequence Management • Decontamination and remediation capabilities to initiate or sustain U.S. and partner military operations following WMD use; • Capabilities to respond, mitigate and restore other services following WMD use inside or outside United States; • Procedures and systems to ensure effective communication and coordination with partner civil and military authorities, other U.S. Federal agencies, U.S. state and local authorities. General • Cooperative activities with international partners to improve their capabilities, and heighten their contribution, to all aspects of combating WMD: prevention/nonproliferation; protection/counterproliferation; and response/consequence management.