Contamination Avoidance Detector Test Suite (CADTS)

The Contamination Avoidance Detector Test Suite (CADTS) project will enhance the capability of the Test and Evaluation (T&E;) community to evaluate present and future Chemical/ Biological (C/B) detector systems. Detector testing capabilities that will be developed by the CADTS project include: the detection of agents at lower concentrations; the development of test fixtures to generate dynamic agents that simulate expected operational conditions; and the improved quantification and assessment of interferent effects. The project will also develop improved quantification and tracking of stimulant clouds: real-time data integration and processing; outdoor grid ground truth stimulant cloud characterizations; correlation between live C/B agents and simulants; and better representation of threat environments. In addition, dynamic C/B generators, such as infrared spectral projectors, will be developed to accelerate the evaluation of passive standoff detection systems.