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.
This isn’t competing in the Ironman or climbing Mount Everest — this challenge was designed to save warfighter lives. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies Department created the 24 Month Challenge with the goal of taking diagnostic technology from concept to the field. It puts easy-to-use tools in the hands of warfighters to detect and diagnose biological threats.
Used in many attacks such as the 1995 Tokyo subway incident, multiple Syrian chemical strikes and several assassinations, horrifying nerve agent assaults are becoming more common for both civilians and warfighters. Although medical countermeasures exist to sustain life after organophosphate (OP) nerve agent exposure, the risk of brain damage, behavioral and neurological disorders due to prolonged seizures persist. The Defense Threat Reduction...
A rainy day can do much more than ruin your weekend plans, it can also spread disease through soil and water contamination. For warfighters, this could negatively impact mission readiness by disrupting troop disposition or health. Understanding how environmental and weather factors affect disease outbreaks is vital to safeguarding our service members. Therefore, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies...
