COLUMBUS, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Dr. George W. Korch announced his retirement at the end of September, 2022 as Director of the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) and ...
FORT DETRICK -- The Department of Homeland Security's National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center is one of two major labs at the National Interagency Biodefense Campus now nearing ...
NBACC's close ties to the U.S. intelligence community have also caused concern among the agency's critics. The CIA has assigned advisers to the lab, including at least one member of the "Z-Division," ...
Mar. 6—The acting director of the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasure Center was appointed to the position permanently last week, according to a spokesperson for the center, which is ...
The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center has a new laboratory director. George W. Korch Jr. will return to the Fort Detrick campus after serving as assistant secretary of ...
“We don’t do science projects just because they’re cool. We’re doing them to solve important problems that are facing the nation and our workforce.” And Hough is right—with a devastating pandemic ...
Like many U.S. research and development agencies, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) was forced to shift priorities almost overnight due to the COVID-19 ...
The Department of Homeland Security's long-planned biodefense center at Fort Detrick, Md., is expected to open at the end of the year. The department's National Biodefense Analysis & Countermeasure ...
As the US government picks up the pace of building high-security biodefence laboratories, community groups and watchdogs are ramping up their protests. The latest clash centres on Fort Detrick, an ...
For scientists working at the Department of Homeland Security’s biodefense research laboratory, the directive from senior agency officials was unprecedented: drop everything and focus on one target, ...
On the grounds of a military base an hour's drive from the capital, the Bush administration is building a massive biodefense laboratory unlike any seen since biological weapons were banned 34 years ...