The Biological Threat Reduction Program of the Department of Defense: From Foreign Assistance to Sustainable Partnerships by National Research Council of the National Academies

Author:National Research Council of the National Academies
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Conflict and Security Issues : Policy, Reviews and Evaluations. Conflict and Security Issues : Prevention, Security and Response
Publisher: NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Published: 2007-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

• Biological-Chemical Redirection Program (BCR): This program provides funding to USDA, DHHS, and EPA for programs listed separately below: As the U.S. government focused on redirection of former Soviet biological weapons expertise in the late 1990s, DOS quickly recognized that knowledgeable experts with skills necessary for program implementation and oversight resided in a number of other U.S. government departments and agencies. Therefore, DOS worked with the Congress to augment its legislative authorities, which now allow DOS to include expertise from other U.S. government departments and agencies in biological threat reduction efforts and to provide funding for their program activities. This expanded authority led to programs carried out by DHHS, USDA, and EPA. Each of these organizations receives annual fund transfers from DOS as discussed below.

• Global Biosecurity Engagement Program (BEP): In 2006, the National Security Council (NSC) tasked ISN/CTR to draft a strategy for strengthening global pathogen security. The effort identified potential proliferation problems in critical geographical areas. The strategy, as approved by the NSC, identified roles for U.S. government departments and agencies and assigned the lead engagement effort to ISN/CTR. At the time, other departments and agencies, such as DOD, DHHS, and USDA, lacked either the requisite funding, the legislative authority, or both, to assume the lead. In some ways, the NSC strategy mirrors a related strategy dealing with homeland security that links reduction of biological threats to improving threat awareness, developing prevention and protection tools, enhancing surveillance and detection, and developing response and recovery capabilities.2

2 See National Security Policy Directive 33, Biodefense for the 21st Century, signed June 12, 2002. Available on-line at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040428-6.html. Accessed May 30, 2007.

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