Mission domain · Published capability
CBRN: turn a detection into a bounded decision
A chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear detection is a race between certainty and time — evacuate now on a maybe, or wait for confirmation while exposure grows. An alarm without location, identity, and spread is not yet a decision.
DaggerOS™ folds chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear detections into the operator picture with the location, identity, and context needed to act — not just an alarm. It correlates detections across sensors and places, so a hazard is bounded rather than guessed. BlackEcho™ helps the operator weigh certainty against time.
How DaggerOS handles it
A single CBRN alarm is ambiguous; several correlated detections, placed and identified, become a decision an operator can defend. DaggerOS brings CBRN into the same picture as everything else so the hazard is reasoned about in context — where it is, what it likely is, and where it is spreading. It stays air-gapped and on-box near a contaminated area. The Human Gate governs any protective action ordered.
Related subsystems
- DaggerOS — fuses and bounds CBRN detections in the picture and records the decision.
- BlackEcho — helps weigh confidence against exposure time and drafts a recommendation.
- Human Gate — the single authorization point for a protective action.
Standards touched
Hazard prediction and reporting align to ATP-45 (Allied CBRN); sensor tasking follows NATO SAPIENT; the decision record is chained per FIPS 180-4 / 186-5. Human authority is held to DoDD 3000.09.
Where it fits
CBRN detection supports installation force protection, special-event security, and critical-infrastructure protection. It is evaluated by DHS, program offices, and fusion centers. See installation force protection and critical infrastructure protection.
Evidence
Roadmap. CBRN fusion aligned to ATP-45 is a planned expansion of the picture and is marked honestly as not yet demonstrated.
FAQ
Does DaggerOS make the evacuate-or-wait call?
No. It bounds the hazard — location, likely identity, spread — and helps the operator weigh certainty against time. The protective decision, and any order, is the human’s at the Human Gate.
Why correlate CBRN detections?
Because one alarm is ambiguous. Several correlated, located detections turn a maybe into a bounded hazard an operator can defend acting on.
What standard governs the hazard picture?
Hazard prediction and reporting are engineered to ATP-45, the Allied CBRN standard, so the picture speaks the language responders already use.