Story by Elliott Page | Naval Medical Research Command | 06.06.2025
The landscape of bacterial health threats is ever evolving and poses a significant risk to the readiness of the U.S. military, whose members are frequently exposed to bacteria through combat injuries and deployments to overseas locations....
Story by Matthew Stinson | Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Washington | 06.09.2021
The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Washington environmental team, in partnership with Public Works Department Washington, investigated and expeditiously staged a remediation plan for contaminated legacy soil and groundwater on the Washington Navy Yard (WNY). The remediation plan will utilize bacteria to decontaminate soil and groundwater in the footprints of Buildings 46......
Story by Senior Airman Breanna Klemm | 97th Air Mobility Wing | 10.18.2020
The 97th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron, Bioenvironmental Engineering Flight takes monthly water samples to help manage safe drinking water at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma....
Story by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 08.02.2019
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Aug. 2, 2019) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District announces the immediate closure of Ragland Bottom Day Use Beach at Center Hill Lake in Smithville, Tenn., due to high bacteria levels in the water. The area is still open for picnicking and boat launching. No other beaches at Center Hill Lake are affected....
Courtesy Story | Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chemical and Biological Technologies Department | 10.15.2018
The Joint Science and Technology Office (JSTO) Science Review (JSR) fosters collaboration, cooperation and innovation by allowing program managers and senior leadership to understand the latest warfighter-driven technologies in development....
Courtesy Story | Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chemical and Biological Technologies Department | 10.15.2018
DNA-based nucleic acid vaccines have the potential to become a universal platform solution to viral threat agents. The U.S. Department of Defense is currently developing DNA vaccines to protect against a variety of viral threats including alphaviruses, filoviruses and hantaviruses....
Courtesy Story | Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chemical and Biological Technologies Department | 10.15.2018
When Ebola virus disease (EVD) reared its head in May in the Congo, the world was armed with the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine thanks to interagency collaboration efforts by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies Department....
Story by Mathuel Browne | Marine Corps Systems Command | 01.23.2017
The Marine Corps is investing in a next-generation water purification system that will allow individual Marines to get safe, drinkable water straight from the source. The Individual Water Purification System Block II is an upgrade to the current version issued to all Marines....
