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4 U.S. Research Infrastructure
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If the United States is to achieve the stated goal to confidently monitor evasively tested nuclear explosions with a yield of a few kilotons, additional fundamental and directed research will be needed. Simply deploying sensors and bringing the IMS and NTM into operation cannot guarantee technically effective monitoring of the treaty.
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In FY 1997 DOE will provide about $0.4M for external research.22 The DoD FY97 budget for development of the IDC system is about $20M, which will need to be sustained at least until the IMS system is deployed. The funding level for basic and applied research for CTBT monitoring from all sources was around $12 million in FY 1995 and FY 1996.23 If DOE support of external CTBT-related fundamental research decreases as indicated in its current budget projections, the remaining $8.8 million for DoD programs represents about a 27 per cent reduction of the research effort, despite the expanded role of multiple monitoring technologies and the time 22 By comparison, DOE had provided $4 M/yr from the FY95 and FY96 budgets to external research.
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These include the relative levels of disciplinary efforts; the relative emphasis on fundamental, applied, and advanced developmental research; and mechanisms to coordinate and buffer the competition for resources that can develop between different types of research. The 1995-1997 CTBT research program is the most useful basis for projecting future 85 needs, given that prior to 1995, relatively little emphasis in external fundamental research programs was placed on monitoring technologies other than seismology.
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Other research efforts now conducted within government agencies are also separate from the external fundamental research program and should be sustained. For example, the large applied and advanced developmental program of DOE, which addresses all areas of relevance to CTBT monitoring including satellite NTM and On-Site Inspection procedures, should be sustained with budget levels similar to FY 1997 since essential IMS-NTM regionalization and calibration activities are being pursued.
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Precisely located earthquakes and details about large mining explosions can greatly accelerate seismic calibration of a region, and it is desirable to pursue such exchanges of data and the compilation of associated ground truth data sets for calibration of the monitoring technologies. 87 4.4 REQUIREMENTS FOR LONG-TERM STABILITY AND E~ll~IESS The most important requirement for stability of the CTBT research program is stabilization of the research budget, with a multiyear commitment that firmly establishes its viability for intellectual resources in universities and private companies.
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The prototype IDC has operated a limited system of this type, with visitors to the Center for Monitoring Research accessing the IMS data and processing system, but at present there is no clear plan for a broadly accessible test bed system for the long term. Progress on many of the research issues raised in Chapter 3 will require researchers to analyze RESEARCH REQUIRED TO SUPPORT CTBT MONITOHNG actual signals from various monitoring disciplines and give them an opportunity to test proposed analysis methods.
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