The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order valued at $214,989.13 to The Henry L. Stimson Center on November 1, 2023, for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Dialogue and Table Top Research Support Services. This award was made without a set-aside designation and is scheduled for completion by October 31, 2024. The Stimson Center, a non-profit foreign affairs think tank based in Washington, D.C., specializes in international security research and has an established track record of delivering strategic research services to federal national security agencies, particularly in the areas of weapons of mass destruction, nonproliferation, and emerging global threats.
This contract award stems from DTRA's Strategic Trends Research Initiative (STRI), a broad agency announcement that solicits analytic research products from academic and non-profit institutions to generate operationally relevant insights into emerging threats within DTRA's mission space over a five to ten-year horizon. Under this award, the Stimson Center will deliver research products derived from strategic dialogues and tabletop exercises that characterize the future threat environment to inform DTRA and Department of Defense operations and investments. The strategic dialogues and tabletop exercises represent key deliverables sought under the STRI program, which prioritizes mission relevance and technical merit in addressing weapons of mass destruction and emerging threats.