TREATY VERIFICATION AND COMPLIANCE MONITORING OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS

THE PROGRAM PROPOSED BY DESE RESEARCH AND ITS PROPOSED SUBCONTRACTOR, BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABS., IS DESIGNED TO DEMONSTRATE THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF REMOTE TECHNICAL MONITORING OF CHEMICAL AGENTS. TECHNICAL OBJEECTIVES DURING PHASE I OF THE PROGRAM ARE TO: DEMONSTRATE THE CONCEPTUAL FEASIBILITY OF REMOTE SENSING OF CHEMICAL AGENTS THROUGH APROGRAM THAT: DEFENSES TREATY DRIVEN SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS, EVALUATES THE PROPOSED TECHNOLOGY IN A REQUIREMENTS DRIVEN SYSTEMS CONTEXT, AND PROVIDES CONCEPTUAL DEFINITION OF LABORATORY PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS THAT WILL DEMONSTRATE THE TECHNICAL FEASIBLITY OF REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEMS. PREVIOUS ANALYSES HAVE REVEALED THAT LASER-BASED OPTICAL TECHNIQUES MIGHT BE APPROPRIATE FOR REMOTE MONITORING. INITIAL SCREEN ING HAS INDICATED THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL CANDIDATE TECHNOLOGIES FOR INSTRUMENTATION DEVELOPMENT COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY AND INFRARED FLUORESCENCE. THESE ANALYSES HAVE REVEALED THAT THE RAMAN SCATTERING BY A GIVEN MOLECULE IS UNIQUE TO THAT MOLECULE (THUSE FINGERPRINTING THAT MOLECULE). HENCE THE TECHNIQUE IS AMENABLE TO PATTERN RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY. THUS, EVEN WITHOUT DETECTING THE AGENTS THEMSELVES, THEIR MANUFACTURE CAN BE DEDUCED FROM THE PRESENCE OF EITH PRECURSORS, PROCESSING CHEMICALS, OR BYPRODUCTS. THE PRODUCT OF PHASE I WILL BE A CONCEPTUAL MODEL THAT DEMONSTRATES THE FEASIBLITY OF DETECTING CHEMICAL AGENTS PRODUCTION BY DETECTION OF EITHER AGENTS OR PRECURSORS USING CARS AND/OR INFRARED FLUORESCENCE. SELECTED LABORATORY PROOF-OFPRINCPLE EXPERIMENTS WILL BE CONDUCTED UNDER PHASE II THAT WILL DEMONSTRATE THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF REMOTE DETECTION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS.