DTRA’s core functions represent our enduring approach to deter, prevent and prevail against WMD threats.Even as these essential activities continue, the Agency must seek to tackle new and pressing challenges in innovative ways. The following initiatives seek to elevate particular problem sets that require additional attention and focus from an agency-wide perspective. These problem sets include: the rapid decline in existing arms control even as the strategic imperative for risk reduction grows; the growing complexity and escalatory challenges surrounding regional WMD use and crisis response; the impact of the information environment on DTRA operations, activities, and investments; and the need to rapidly evolve the Agency’s ability to recruit and retain a technically skilled and diverse workforce. Over the next year, the Agency will address these gaps and augment our core functions through four cross-agency initiatives designed to deliver expedited results by leveraging cross-agency task-organized approaches to deliver new capabilities and solutions to these pressing problems. Strengthen Future Arms Control Readiness DTRA has a long history of preventing WMD proliferation and use through threat reduction and arms control efforts... Read More Prepare for WMD Crisis Events DTRA will prioritize crisis readiness for WMD use by state actors, to include the potential for limited nuclear use, across a range of scenarios... Read More Adapt to the Information Environment Our competitors seize on opportunities within the information environment to advance narratives that challenge U.S. CWMD activities... Read More Building the Workforce of the Future A renewed emphasis on recruiting, retaining, and empowering a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and highly-skilled workforce... Read More