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Senior Pentagon Official Calls for Spending Boost to Chemical and Biological Defenses
The U.S. Defense Department should double the amount of money it spends on its Chemical and Biological Defense Program, a senior Pentagon official said yesterday (see GSN, Dec. 15).
The program currently has a $1.2 billion budget, InsideDefense.com reported .
“We have to get serious,” said Lisa Bronson, deputy undersecretary of defense for technology security policy and counterproliferation.
Bronson also called for funding on “parallel” projects, knowing that some will not work.
“It’s not the way we do it in the chem-bio defense community because we just can’t afford it,” she said. The Defense Department needs to “let some basic science run as far as it can to prove some ideas out,” she added (Jeremy Feiler, InsideDefense.com, Dec. 18).
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