Chemical and Biological Defense Program CBDP

DoD Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP) Transformational Medical technologies Initiative 2008 Report to Congress, http //www.tmti-cbdefense.org/. 

The National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will identity the scientific and technology capabilities that must be available to support Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP) research, development, test and evaluation, and operational activities, and provide guidance on which of these capabilities can be obtained outside the Military Service laboratories, which are unavailable except in the Military Service laboratories, and which are so mission-critical (classified, nonproliferation, or other) that they should be maintained in the Military Ser dce laboratories. It will review relevant Department of Defense (DoD) studies and other pertinent literature, and conduct site visits and interviews with all necessary CBDP and DoD Laboratory stakeholders to collect the data to accomplish the study objectives. It will provide guidance for coordination and... 

All congressionally appropriated funds for DoD chemical and biological defense are overseen, managed, and executed through the CBDP, except specific exempted programs conducted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Special Operations Command. 

Recommendation 3.1 The Director, JSTO-CBD, should ensure that the development of a Culture of Collaboration is a high priority for all elements of the chemical and biological defense enterprise. Although information control requirements and contracting concerns have been stated as barriers on both sides to collaboration, these are issues that can and should be addressed. To ensure that the program delivers products based on the best S T available, the CBDP needs to find ways to partner with the broader scientific community and other federal agencies in areas relevant to chemical and biological defense. 

Existence or non-existence of sufficient informatics capability can literally make or break critical projects and programs in chemical and biological defense. In the biological domain, information is undergoing exponential growth driven by a recent 1,000 times increase in DNA sequence data production rates, and informatics will become an increasingly important tool for CBDP in the coming years. 

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