The Defense Department’s chem-bio defense budget (CBDP) only accounts for less than one percent of what the U.S. military spends. But there’s still a lot to pore over. I thought that I would give an overview today, talk about procurement tomorrow, and talk about RDT&E on Thursday. (Go to the Defense Department Comptroller’s web site […]
Chem-Bio
The Washington Post has this article on the BioShield program. It’s a bit of a scorecard on the four-year old program, and the score doesn’t look good for homeland security. Let’s take a look, agent by agent. Old Anthrax Treatment: “As the result of an effort that began before BioShield, there are enough antibiotics in […]
And who wouldn’t love a seven-foot Amazonian woman leading the Female Furies to save the day? Oh, we’re not talking about the DC comics book character “Big BARDA”? It’s also the name of a new Department of Health and Human Service’s (DHHS) effort? Well, we can talk about that, too. Last Thursday, the Senate approved […]
North Korea’s newly-tested nuke is bad news, for sure. But the bigger worry, says Popular Mechanics is the “huge arsenal of mass casualty weapons” that Kim & Co. have been assembling for 45 years: biological and chemical arms. While it would be foolish not to be gravely concerned about North Korea’s purported development of an […]
This story about “Project BioShield,” the government’s botched effort to build up a vaccine supply against anthrax and other bioterror threats, is a nice wrap-up of one of the administration’s most troubled homeland security efforts (and that’s saying a lot). But the story also kind of misses, or at least sidesteps, the point. Since it […]
