The Biological Threat Reduction Program of the Department of Defense From Foreign Assistance to Sustainable Partnerships (2007) / Chapter Skim
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5 Future of the Biological Threat Reduction Program
5 Future of the Biological Threat Reduction Program
Pages 67-78
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Of course, DOD may at any time request reprogramming authority from the Congress within the overall Cooperative Threat Reduction program if priorities and opportunities change.4 The committee strongly supports this long-term DOD commitment to preventing the proliferation of biological weapons. As discussed throughout this report, the national security payoffs from a robust and far reaching program in this field are considerable.
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standards. • Uzbekistan: Continue construction of epidemiological monitoring stations and provide training for personnel to respond to and rapidly diagnose disease outbreaks.
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While a highly directed program based on the near-term security interests of the United States and tightly managed by American commercial contractors was appropriate during the 1990s, greater attention should now be given to having a program that serves the interests of the partner governments more broadly, as well as serving longer-term U.S. interests.
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Maintenance and operating costs will probably be at least $5 million annually. BTRP plans to assume responsibility for supporting maintenance and operation of the CRLs that it constructs for five-year "warranty" periods.
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government consider retaining indefinitely partial ownership of any CRL with BSL-3 capability that is established with BTRP support. Such retention of ownership has important implications, as follows: • The U.S.
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To this end, BTRP should give greater emphasis to a comprehensive, multifaceted approach to international engagement for achieving biosecurity, public health, and agriculture objectives. The approach should include development of countermeasures to bioterrorism, enhanced facility security, collaborative surveillance activities, expanded cooperative research, development of common biosafety procedures, adoption of good laboratory practices and good manufacturing practices, development of human resources, and related activities.
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●●● "High quality American collaborators are very important." Russian senior scientist, March 2007. BTRP increasingly recognizes the importance of strong and committed collaborators and that adequate financial support must be provided to collaborators.
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This approach varies from the initial BTRP practice of BTRP staff and contractors developing the research concepts in considerable detail and then trying to find appropriate investigators in the region and collaborators in the United States. • BTRP should ensure that American collaborators as well as local researchers have access to sufficient funds to enable them to pursue related parallel research efforts.
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For example, the Federal Biological Medical Agency expressed interest to the committee in 2007, and its specialists then proposed the following agenda of activities: • Translation of the results of research projects carried out under BTRP into health care practice • Financial support of projects to develop drugs for protection from dangerous infections • Collaborative research to create a joint system of biological safety control Also, a number of prominent Russian specialists have told committee members on numerous occasions that resumption of BTRP cooperation is overdue. Against this background of benefits to the United States and strong latent interest in Russia, BTRP should reinvigorate its earlier cooperative biological research and related programs, which have almost disappeared in Russia due to a policy change within DOD in the early 2000s that led to termination of funding of new projects.
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26. As a related step in reviving and retaining Russian and American interest in cooperative research, BTRP should consider supporting periodic international scientific conferences in Russia on infectious diseases of public health importance to both countries, including naturally occurring and intentionally released pathogens.
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global efforts to contain the spread of infectious diseases. BTRP has recognized the importance of IT in the TADR network and should continue to emphasize IT applications in all aspects of the program.
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