JUST IN: Pentagon Biological Defense Programs at ‘Pivot Point’
7/28/2022
By Stew Magnuson
BALTIMORE — The Defense Department will invest an additional $300 million per year over the next five years to guard against known and emerging biological threats, a senior Pentagon official said July 28.
Deb Rosenblum, assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological programs, said what is being called “bio-convergence” — the joining of biological sciences and emerging technologies will be both a boon to society but a threat to U.S. forces and the homeland as well.
“Technologies like artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and physics are being applied to the life sciences, creating what the national security community is calling ‘bio-convergence,’” she said at the National Defense Industrial Association’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense Exhibition and Conference in Baltimore.
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2022/7/28/pentagon-biological-defense-programs-at-pivot-point
