Pioneering Research for the Army at the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB)
Abstract
The worlds of biology and biotechnology have found their way into the development of vital technologies that will have a positive impact on Soldier performance. This is being accomplished through the basic and applied research efforts of investigators within the Army's Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB). The ICB was established in 2003 and operated on behalf of the Army at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and partners in industry. The ICB is one of only a few Congressionally chartered University Affiliated Research Centers designed to facilitate and accelerate the transition from discovery to development and implementation. Through its own research and its strategic collaborations and alliances with Army laboratories; research, development and engineering centers (RDECs); and industrial partners, the ICB provides the Army with a single conduit for developing, assessing and adapting new products and biotechnologies in direct support of Army missions. The Army needs addressed by the ICB include research and development (R&D) improvements in the fields of advanced sensors, materials synthesis, power and energy, information processing, network analysis and neuroscience. The ICB's mission is to use the tools of modern biotechnology to discover the mechanisms responsible for the remarkably high performance of complex biological systems and translate these into revolutionary advances in engineering for the support of Army operations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2007
- Accession Number
- ADA491200
Entities
People
- Daniel E Morse
- Robert J. Kokoska