DoD Counterdrug Technology Development Program Office. The CDTDPO is responsible for developing and demonstrating technologies, and specific counterdrug system solutions to enhance the counterdrug capabilities of the Department of Defense and as appropriate, Civilian Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, while remaining consistent with the National Drug Control Strategy.

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD). It manages and directs selected basic and applied research and development projects for DoD, and pursues research and technology where risk and payoff are both very high and where success may provide dramatic advances for traditional military roles and missions and dual-use applications.

National Institute of Justice. NIJ is the research agency of the U.S. Department of Justice. Created by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, as amended, NIJ is authorized to support research, evaluation, and demonstration programs, development of technology, and both national and international information dissemination.