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As both a Defense Agency and Combat Support Agency, DTRA provides cross-cutting countering weapons of mass destruction (CWMD) solutions. DTRA enables the Department to shape the operating environment and reduce risk to national security objectives, providing technologies and integrated deterrence solutions for the most intractable WMD problems. DTRA supports whole-of-government efforts to prevent the acquisition, proliferation, and use of WMD and associated materials and to confound the decision calculus of WMD-armed adversaries.

In executing our assigned roles and responsibilities, I expect our workforce to embrace the concepts of integrated deterrence, campaigning, and building enduring advantages as articulated in the NDS. Furthermore, I intend for the Agency to be more proactive and anticipatory in our thinking as we execute our five core functions:

### DTRA FUNCTIONS

                                      - Ensure a reliable and resilient strategic deterrent through nuclear surety, mission assurance, and crisis response activities;
                                      - Develop and deliver novel capabilities to the warfighter across the WMD threat spectrum;
                                      - Prevent, reduce, and eliminate WMD threats through risk reduction, arms control, partner capacity building, and warfighter support;
                                      - Provide strategic and operational support through subject matter expertise, technical analysis, reachback capability, and tailored intelligence; and
                                      - Support combatant commands with plans, concepts, exercises, and materiel solutions to address WMD operational risks.

As DTRA aligns with the 2022 NDS, it will operationalize its mission by deterring, preventing, and prevailing against WMD threats.
                                      - DETER strategic attacks against the United States and its allies
                                      - PREVENT, reduce, and counter current and emerging WMD threats
                                      - PREVAIL against WMD-armed adversaries in crisis and conflict
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### ABOUT DTRA

DTRA provides cross-cutting solutions to enable the Department of Defense, the United States Government, and international partners to deter strategic attack against the United States and its allies; prevent, reduce, and counter WMD and emerging threats; and prevail against WMD-armed adversaries in crisis and conflict.  

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