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Science and Technology: Biological Countermeasures

The Biological Countermeasures program provides the technologies and systems needed to anticipate, deter, detect, mitigate, and recover from possible biological attacks on this nation's population, agriculture or infrastructure. The program operates laboratories and biological detection systems and conducts research.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • This program is highly effective at providing countermeasures and protective technologies to mitigate the effects of biological agents. The BioWatch program countinually monitors the air around major U.S. cities for biological agents with no false positive readings after over a million samples analyzed.
  • The internal program evaluation and analysis process that the Directorate developed evaluated the progress that this portfolio made toward achieving their respective goals and remedying any deficiencies.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Conducting an external, independent evaluation to validate program performance targets by the end of 2006.
  • Funding for this program will continue to be the largest share of expenditures for the Science and Technology Directorate in future budgets based on the high performance of this program.

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