BIOLOGICAL WARFARE DEFENSE

Abstract

DARPA's Biological Warfare Defense project is budgeted in the Applied Research Budget Activity because its focus is on the underlying technologies associated with the detection, prevention, treatment and remediation of biological, chemical, and radionuclide threats. Efforts to counter existing and emerging biological, chemical and radiological threats include countermeasures to stop the pathophysiologic processes that occur as a consequence of an attack, host immune response enhancers, medical diagnostics for the most virulent pathogens and their molecular mechanisms, collection of environmental trace constituents to support chemical mapping, tactical and strategic biological, chemical, and radiological sensors, and integrated defense systems. This program also includes development of a unique set of platform technologies and medical countermeasures synthesis that will dramatically decrease the timeline from military threat detection to countermeasure availability.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2015
• Source ID: 0602383E_2_0400_PB_2015
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2013: Decrease reflects Congressional reductions for Sections 3001 & 3004, sequestration adjustments, reprogrammings, and the SBIR/STTR transfer. FY 2015: Increase reflects new emphasis placed on chemical and nuclear threat defense.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Biological Warfare
• Chemical Warfare Agents
• Chemical Weapons
• Chemistry
• Countermeasures
• Defense Systems
• Detection
• Detectors
• Drinking Water
• Emerging Technology
• Environment
• Ionizing Radiation
• Medical Countermeasures
• Platforms
• Radiation
• Therapy
• Warfare

Readers

• Environmental Engineering.
• Medical Imaging.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.