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, scheduled to open in 2008, will be the nation's premier research facility for biological threat characterization and bioforensic research. The lab, which will employ approximately 120 people, is under construction in Frederick, Maryland at Fort Detrick. The 160,000-square-foot facility will become 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.

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