The Battelle National Biodefense Institute was selected by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2006 to manage the new National Biodefense Analysis & Countermeasures Center (NBACC), a federally funded research and development center. The NBACC is the nation's premier research facility for biological threat characterization and bioforensic research. NBACC fills critical shortfalls in our scientific knowledge of the biological agents that could be used to cause harm to the American public. NBACC is focused on developing the right science to identify perpetrators of biological events and to help guide the nation’s investments in vaccines, drugs, detectors, and other countermeasures. The lab is located at Frederick, Maryland at Fort Detrick. The 160,000-square-foot facility is part of the biodefense campus that includes the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
Link to National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center