AF_Use_of_CIDAS_Capability_Brief--8_Nov_2012.pdf

I n t e g r i t y - S e r v i c e - E x c e l l e n c e

Headquarters U.S. Air Force

Air Force Contamination

Indicator Decontamination

Assurance (CIDAS) Briefing

This Briefing is:

UNCLASSIFIED

Agenda

Combat Airbase Missions

Air Force (AF) Counter-Chemical Warfare (C-CW) CONOPS

CIDAS Requirements

Desired CIDAS Criteria

Critical Operational and Sustainment Indicators

Operational CIDAS Uses

Unrestrictive Asset Use & Reconstitution

AF Contacts

Questions/Comments

Combat Airbase Missions

Generate Sorties: Fighters; Bombers; Intelligence, Surveillance, & Reconnaissance (ISR); Airlift, Aerial Refueling

Includes repairing, refueling, & rearming aircraft

Airlift is both inter- and intra-theater (a.k.a. strategic and tactical)

Providing support for aircrew

Space, cyber, and other strategic missions typically conducted outside of missile range

Aerial Port: off-load and on-load cargo & passengers

Command & Control (C2)

Combat Support functions protect and restore base operational capability

Logistics, Security, Engineering, Communications

Airbases operate as an integrated system of systems

AF Counter Chemical Warfare

(C-CW) CONOPS

Divide the base into sectors based on geography and function

Place M8 paper before the attack to identify contaminated resources

Cover or shelter resources from aerosol deposition

Use hazard prediction models to determine sector MOPP levels

Manage low-level exposures over time (12-hour shifts, multiple days)

Perform small-scale owner/ user DECON and weathering

Spot DECON for munitions, tools, aircraft, vehicles, etc.

Small transition point DECON stations (between sectors)

Contamination Control Area

(CCA): large personnel

DECON station(s)

CIDAS Requirements

Air Force Operational CIDAS Use Requirements:

Detect agents that have sorbed into paint and other materials

Low levels of sorbed contamination are operationally significant, because vapor can off-gas from contaminated surfaces and materials, and cause casualties or fatalities

Determine; if resources with or without M8 paper on the resources during an attack, or not properly marked and tracked after an attack, are or were contaminated

Capability to confirm decontamination to thorough and clearance levels

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Desired CIDAS Criteria

Many potential uses for CIDAS; all hinge on identifying two separate forms of Chemical contamination:

Contact hazard: Agent in “free liquid” form that has not absorbed into the resource or terrain surface

Vapor hazard: Potentially dangerous level of vapor hazard indirectly indicated by existence of sufficient amount of chemical agent unabsorbed and/or absorbed into surface

No established AF criteria yet for shelf-life, pot life, costs

CIDAS represents a completely new capability, no reference points

The better CIDAS works, e.g., lasts longer, affordable to sustain; the more we will want CIDAS, and the more of CIDAS, we will field

NOTE: Criteria presented in this briefing is representative in nature and is not necessarily the Key Performance Parameters the Air Force will support as the CIDAS program matures

Critical Operational and

Sustainment Indicators

The result from using the CIDAS capability must be a significant improvement in operational capability compared to before the

CIDAS capability was employed. Example: Reduction in

Mission Oriented Protective Posture (MOPP) Level, from MOPP

Level 4, to MOPP Level 2

The Air Force will not be fiscally able to field a capability that is expensive to maintain and difficult to transport or use

Operational CIDAS Uses

Representative Operational CIDAS Uses

Operational Use Category of Criteria that Applies

Contact Hazard Vapor Hazard

Identification of contaminated terrain surface areas in locations, where M8 paper was not pre-positioned

X

Identification of what resources, or portions of resources, are contaminated for purpose of determining, if wear of individual protective equipment, and/or decontamination is necessary

X

X*

Assessment of whether or not decontamination was successful

X X

Identification of agent released in liquid media

(coming back to surface after rain, decontamination effluent, etc.)

X**

*In future, AF will provide additional criteria associated with the level CIDAS would have to detect in order for units to shorten the IPE timeframes contained within the Chemically Contaminated Object Rule

**In future, AF will provide additional criteria (expressed as mg/liter or equivalent) associated with identification of agent in liquid media

Unrestricted Asset Use &

Reconstitution

Return critical assets to unrestricted worldwide use status during and/or immediately after combat operations

Examples: ISR platforms & support assets; C17s,C5s, F22s, F-35

Long-term, end-of-conflict, reconstitution of contaminated assets to clearance (pre-CBRN Contamination) levels

Will use on a wide range of equipment and munitions

Prove assets are decontaminated to the “Clearance” Level

Hazard detection: lowest level technologically possible

Air Force Contacts

Joseph Balcer, HQ ACC/A7XX, joseph.balcer@langley.af.mil

Lt. Garrick D. Warren, Air Force Chemical-Biological Branch

(AFLCMC/WNUW), garrick.d.warren.mil@mail.mil

James Oesterreich, AFCEC/CXR, james.oesterreich.ctr@tyndall.af.mil

Bert Cline, HAF/A5XP, bert.cline@pentagon.af.mil

Marita Woods, AFCEC/CXR, marita.woods@tyndall.af.mil

Raymond Maloney, HAF/A7CXR, raymond.maloney.ctr@pentagon.af.mil

Questions/Comments?

Any questions/comments?