Field Forward Biothreat Storage Solutions for Force Protection
Abstract
Warfighters are currently deployed to emerging disease hotspots with increasing pathogen spillovers. Biosurveillance groups tasked with force health protection rely on cold chains and transport media to maintain sample viability for characterization in a laboratory setting, but these methods are unreliable, sometimes inaccessible, or limited in their utility. Building upon technologies investigated under the Gene Editor Enabled Diagnostics & Biosurveillance program, the Field Forward Biothreat Storage Solutions for Force Protection program will offer expanded capabilities to microbial threat characterization by developing systems capable of long-term, cold chain-free storage of microbial samples. Systems that are able to reliably store and retrieve viable microbes over long timescales will ensure that collected samples reach the lab for study in a usable state, allowing the DoD to better leverage its field-forward laboratories to perform pathogenicity assessments for countermeasure development.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- ff3fcd18c6ddf61847ac125fd3ce8125