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The Chemical Biological Defense Interest Area covers the development of technology to counter the threat of Chemical/Biological weapons and to ensure the safety and mission effectiveness of U.S. forces operating within a contaminated environment with minimal impact on logistics.

Chemical/Biological Defense Technology Areas:

• Chemical/Biological Detection
  Real-time capabilities to detect, identify, map, quantify, track, and disseminate information on the presence of all Chemical/Biological warfare agent threats at levels to protect against incapacitation/physiologically significant effects.
• Chemical/Biological Protection
  Maintainance of a high level of protection against Chemical/Biological agents while reducing the physiological and logistics burden associated with wearing protective equipment; integration of Chemical/Biological protection with protection from environmental, ballistic, and other threats; and protective environments for personnel operating in aircraft, armored vehicles, ships, shelters, and other large area enclosures.
• Chemical/Biological Decontamination
  Effective, environmentally safe Chemical/Biological decontamination systems to clean up toxic materials without damaging the contaminated surface or affecting the performance of the equipment being decontaminated.
• Medical Chemical Defense
  Preservation of combat effectiveness by timely provision of medical countermeasures in response to joint service chemical weapons defense requirements.
• Medical Biological Defense
  Sustained effectiveness of U.S. forces in a biological weapons environment through: preventing casualties by use of medical countermeasures (e.g., vaccines, toxoids, pretreatment drugs); diagnosing disease with forward-deployable kits and confirmation assays; treating casualties, preventing lethality, and maximizing return to duty using antitoxins and therapeutic drugs.
• Chemical/Biological Modeling & Simulation
  Development of (1) tactical decision aids for systems such as Joint Warning and Reporting Network that provide situational awareness and aid command evaluations; and (2) realistic constructive and virtual simulations of the Chemical/Biological battlefield environment for acquisition decisions, doctrine development, and training.

Samples of current DTIC documents dealing with Chemical Biological Defense issues are listed below. Other resources both within DoD and external to the Department can be found in the menu to the right.

• Department of Defense Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP) – Annual Report (2007, April).
  
• Report on Activities and Programs for Countering Proliferation and NBC Terrorism (2007, May)
  
• American Society for Microbiology – Biodefense Documents
  
• The Bioterrorism Act of 2002 (2002, June)
  
• Biological & Toxin Weapon Treaty (US State Dept)
  
• Creating Defense Excellence: Defense Addendum to Road Map for National Security (2001, May).
  
• ECBC Information Product Reports
  

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Chemical Biological Defense Interest Area Manager

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Email: ChemBioDefense@dticam.dtic.mil
Tel: (619) 545-7529

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