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SORT: 3150.05
DOCI: DODD 3150.5
DATE: 19870324
TITL: DODD 3150.5 DoD Response to Improvised Nuclear Device (IND) Incidents,
March 24, 1987, ASD(ISA)

Refs:(a) DoD Directive 3150.5, "DoD Response to Improvised Nuclear Device
Threats," July 19, 1985 (hereby canceled)
(b) "Joint Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Energy and
Department of Defense Agreement for Response to Improvised Nuclear Device
Incidents," February 27, 1980
(c) "Joint Department of State, Department of Energy and DoD Memorandum
of Understanding for Responding to Malevolent Nuclear Threats Outside U.S.
Territory and Possessions, January 28, 1982
(d) DoD Directive 3025.12, "Employment of Military Resources in the Event
of Civil Disturbances," August 19, 1971
(e) through (i), see enclosure 1

A. REISSUANCE AND PURPOSE

This Directive reissues reference (a) to update policies and procedures
for the DoD response to IND incidents, to implement the DoD technical
responsibilities defined in references (b) and (c), and to amplify the
direction concerning law enforcement and other associated responsibilities
issued in reference (d) and DoD Directive 5100.46 (reference (e)).

B. APPLICABILITY AND SCOPE

This Directive:

1. Applies to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Military
Departments, the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (OJCS), the
Unified and Specified Commands, the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA), and the
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). The term "Military Service," as used
herein, refers to the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.

2. Assigns responsibilities and authorities for the following:

a.  Command and control of DoD resources. b.  Operational response. c.
Requirements for research and development. d.  Participating in joint
working groups, exercises, and activities. e.  Training of Explosive
Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Forces.

3. Amplifies the DoD law enforcement responsibilities and authorities
associated with an IND incident that are addressed in DoD Directive
3025.12 (reference (d)).

C. DEFINITIONS

Terms used in this Directive are defined in enclosure 2.

D. POLICY

It is DoD policy to assist the lead Federal Agency during an IND incident.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the lead Federal Agency for
IND incidents in U.S. territories and possessions.  The Department of State
(DoS) is the lead agency for acts not under FBI responsibility.  When the
Department of Defense responds to an IND incident, operational control
over DoD assets is exercised by the DoD senior representative.

E. RESPONSIBILITIES

The joint FBI, Department of Energy (DoE), DoD agreement and the joint
DoS, DoE, DoD memorandum (references (b) and (c)) include procedures and
responsibilities to be followed for IND incidents.  DoD Instruction 5100.52
(reference (f)) provides guidance for accidents involving radioactive
materials.  Reference (d) and Directives 5100.46 and 3025.1 (references (e)
and (g)) provide policy for military assistance to civil disturbances and
foreign disasters.  Consistent with this Directive and its references,
Military Commanders remain responsible for the safety and security of
military personnel and property.  Nothing contained herein shall restrict
the national security responsibilities of the Department of Defense.

1. The Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary
of the Air Force shall:

a.  In accordance with this Directive, provide resources to address
responsibilities in accordance with references (b) and (c).

b.  Implement this Directive.

2. The Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs)
(ASD(ISA)) shall:

a.  Act as DoD Executive Agent for establishing IND incident response
policy and for providing guidance to the Services and DoD Agencies.

b.  Coordinate interdepartmental exercises and operations.

c.  Ensure that sufficient funds are budgeted by Services for maintaining
operational response teams and for participating in interdepartmental
exercises.

3. The Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy) (ATSD(AE))
shall:

a.  Provide the DoD representation to the DoE Nuclear Emergency Search
Team (NEST) Executive Planning Board (NEPB) and the joint working groups.

b.  Provide guidance on IND response training, equipment, and research and
development.  Coordinate research and development with the Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence)
(ASD(C3I))

c.  Approve DoD EOD research and development program for INDs and
coordinate with DNA and DoE on research and development programs.

4. The Assistant Secretary of Defense (Command, Control, Communications,
and Intelligence) (ASD(C3I)) shall coordinate and support research and
development of IND response capabilities.

5. The Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) (ASD(PA)) shall
provide the public affairs interface with other Government Agencies and
shall provide public affairs guidance to the Services.

6. The Director, Defense intelligence Agency (DIA), shall collect and
report intelligence information on foreign IND incidents.

7. The Director, Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA), shall:

a.  Maintain an active relationship with and assist the Services, DoE, and
other Agencies involved in IND countermeasures and response actions.

b.  Participate in IND contingency planning meetings, joint working
groups, DoE NEPB, Service, and other Federal Agency activities.

c.  Provide response resource and capability information through the Joint
Nuclear Accident Coordinating Center (JNACC).

d.  When requested by a Service or Commander in Chief (CINC), provide the
DoD Senior Representative for Continental United States (CONUS) incidents
as well as other required DNA assets to support the response to the IND
incident

e.  Participate in the planning of IND exercises and training by
facilitating DoD participation.  Observe IND exercises and training to
monitor interdepartmental and inter-Service coordination.

8. The Secretary of the Army shall:

a.  Provide a trained response team of EOD personnel and other required
support for responding to IND incidents on Army installations in the
CONUS, the CONUS land mass (except for those installations specifically
assigned as a responsibility of the Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps), and
other areas as directed by the National Command Authority (NCA) through
the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).

b.  Submit IND countermeasures technology and training requirements to the
Executive Manager for DoD Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology and
Training (EODT&T) in accordance with DoD 5160.62 (reference (h)).

c.  Fund Army IND response team training, exercises, and operations.

d.  Participate in joint working groups, NEST technical working groups,
and interdepartmental exercises.

9. The Secretary of the Navy shall:

a.  Provide a trained response team of EOD personnel and other required
support for responding to IND incidents on Navy and Marine Corps CONUS
installations, IND incidents involving underwater threats, and other areas
as directed by the NCA through the JCS.

b.  Submit IND countermeasures technology and training requirements to the
Executive Manager for EODT&T in accordance with reference (h).

c.  Fund Navy IND response team training, exercise, and operations.

d.  Participate in joint working groups, NEST technical working groups,
and interdepartmental exercises.

e.  Fund and perform research and development program for IND
countermeasures, concentrating on access and disablement, which meets the
requirements of all DoD Components and is approved by the ATSD(AE).

f.  Establish and fund a Joint Service DoD Technical Response Group (DTRG)
to provide specialized equipment and technical assistance to the response
team.

g.  Establish and fund joint Service IND countermeasures training and
exercises based upon inputs from DoD Components.

h.  Provide technical program support to the DoD NEPB representative and
coordinate the DoD research and development (R&D) program with the DoE R&D
program, joint working groups, and NEST technical working groups.

10. The Secretary of the Air Force shall:

a.  Provide a trained response team of EOD personnel and other required
support for responding to IND incidents on Air Force CONUS installations
and other areas as directed by the NCA through the JCS.

b.  Submit IND countermeasures technology and training requirements to the
Executive Manager for EODT&T in accordance with reference (h).

c.  Fund the Air Force IND response team training, exercises, and
operations.

d.  Participate in joint working groups, NEST technical working group, and
interdepartmental exercises.

11. The Commanders of Unified Commands Outside Continental U.S. (OCONUS)
shall:

a.  Support Service component trained response teams of EOD personnel when
they are deployed to an OCONUS unified theater and provide other required
support in response to IND incidents on installations and areas under
their authority.

b.  Submit IND countermeasures technology and training requirements to the
Executive Manager for EODT&T.

c.  Evaluate response team performance in exercises and operations.

12. The Military Airlift Command (MAC) shall plan for and provide Special
Assignment Air Mission (SAAM) support for deployment of DoD and
interdepartmental IND response teams.

13. The Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), shall:

a.  In coordination with Services and appropriate Defense Agencies, be
responsible for implementing the military, response to an IND incident.

b.  Notify the National Security Council (NSC), lead Federal Agency, DoE,
and the Service or CINC Command Center of IND incidents.

c.  Keep the Secretary of Defense and OSD staff informed of the IND
incident.

F. PROCEDURES

1. When the National Military Command Center (NMCC) is notified of an IND
incident, the Operations Team shall notify the lead Federal Agency, the
appropriate Service or CINC, and other appropriate agencies.

2. The Operations Team within the NMCC shall interface with non DoD
organizations and shall facilitate inter-Service support required for such
operations.  When the U.S. Government responds to an IND incident in a
foreign country, the U.S. Ambassador shall coordinate U.S. response
operations with the host government.

3. In U.S. territories and possessions, the FBI Senior Agent in Charge
(SAC) shall be the senior U.S. Government official and shall coordinate
and communicate with local authorities.

4. The DoD response team shall be prepared for deploying within 4 hours of
notification of an IND incident.  The DoD response team shall be under the
command and control of the DoD senior representative, provided by the
responsible Service or CINC, who shall establish coordination with the
lead Federal Agency.  In accordance with the joint agreement (reference
(b)), the lead Federal Agency shall be responsible for establishing
coordination with non-DoD response Agencies.  The DoD response team shall
establish secure communications, when possible, with the NMCC or the
respective CINC and Service Command Center.  The DoD Technical Response
Group (DTRG) shall deploy at the discretion of the DoD senior
representative or the NMCC.

5. The Services and CINCs shall fund incurred costs of operational
deployments under this Directive and the joint agreement and joint
memorandum (references (b) and (c)). Subsequent reimbursements shall be in
accordance with DoD Directive 5100.46 (reference (e)) and 31 U.S.C. 1535
(reference (i)).

G. EFFECTIVE DATE AND IMPLEMENTATION

This Directive is effective immediately.  Forward one copy of the
implementing document to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (International
Security Affairs) within 120 days.

William H. Taft, IV Deputy Secretary of Defense

Enclosures - 2 1. References 2. Definitions

REFERENCES, continued

(e) DoD Directive 5100.46, "Foreign Disaster Relief," December 4, 1975 (f)
DoD Instruction 5100.52, "Radiological Assistance in the Event of an
Accident Involving Radioactive Materials," March 10, 1981
(g) DoD Directive 3025.1, "Use of Military Resources during Peacetime
Civil Emergencies within the United States, its Territories and
Possessions," May 23, 1980
(h) DoD Directive 5160.62, "Single Manager Assignment for Military
Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology and Training (EODT&T)," November
24, 1971
(i) Title 31, United States Code, Section 1535

DEFINITIONS

1. DoD Response Team.  A DoD organization, trained, exercised, and equipped
to assist the lead Federal Agency in response to IND incidents.

2. DoD Senior Representative.  The DoD official, provided by the
responsible Service or CINC, who directs the DoD response team at the
scene of an IND incident, advises the lead Federal Agency, coordinates
operations with the DoE on-site technical teams, and has the authority to
request additional DoD resources.

3. DoD Technical Response Group (DTRG). A trained joint Service EOD
advisory group consisting of scientific and technical personnel trained
and equipped for supporting and assisting the operational response teams.

4. Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD). The detection, identification, field
evaluation, rendering-safe, recovery, neutralization, and final disposal
of unexploded explosive ordnance (UXO) including nuclear, chemical,
biological, and improvised explosive ordnance.

5. Explosive Ordnance Disposal Program Board (EODPB). The organization
that acts in an advisory capacity to the Executive Manager, EOD Technology
and Training (EODT&T), comprising a representative from each of the
Military Departments.

6. Improvised Nuclear Device (IND). A device incorporating radioactive
materials designed to result in the dispersal of radioactive material or
in the formation of a nuclear-yield reaction.  Such devices may be
fabricated in a completely improvised manner or may be an improvised
modification to a U.S. or foreign nuclear weapon.

7. Joint Nuclear Accident Coordinating Center (JNACC). A combined DNA and
DoE centralized Agency for exchanging and maintaining information
concerned with radiological assistance capabilities and coordinating
assistance activities.

8. Lead Federal Agency.  In CONUS and in U.S. territories and possessions,
the lead Federal Agency is the FBI. In areas not under FBI jurisdiction,
the DoS is the lead Federal Agency.

9. National Military Command Center (NMCC). Centralized controlling and
notifying point for activating and coordinating DoD activities.

10. Nuclear Emergency Search Team (NEST). A DoE chartered group of
scientists, engineers, and technicians with specialized equipment and
procedures for providing technical assistance at the scene of a IND
incident.

11. Nuclear Emergency Search Team Executive Planning Board (NEPB). The
organization reporting to the DoE manager of the Nevada Operations Office
comprising top executives from each of the contributing laboratories,
Agencies, and contractors that supports NEST activities.  The NEPB's
primary objective is to establish criteria and provide recommendations for
the DoE NEST program.

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