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The National Interagency Biodefense Campus is a facility in Frederick, MD at Fort Detrick. It hosts members of a scientific collaboration, the National Interagency Confederation for Biological Research. Planning began in 2002, and construction of the NICB began in 2005. [1] The center was expected to cost over $1 billion. [2]
The NBACC (pronounced EN-back) is the principal U.S. biodefense research institution engaged in laboratory-based threat assessment and bioforensics. NBACC is an important part of the National Interagency Biodefense Campus (NIBC) also located at Fort Detrick for the US Army, National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Agriculture.
Fort Detrick Area B is a 399-acre proving ground and was a disposal area for chemical, biological, and radiological material until 1970. In 2009, it was listed as a superfund site on the National Priorities List with four so-called "source areas": chemical waste disposal pits, a landfill, the Area B-Grid and the Area B-20 South burn area.
The National Interagency Confederation for Biological Research (NICBR, pronounced "Nick Burr") is a biotechnology and biodefense partnership and collaborative environment of eight U.S. Federal government agencies through the National Interagency Biodefense Campus (NIBC) at Fort Detrick, Maryland, US.
This phase, with 122 houses and 180 condominiums, Dorment said, is planned for the 23-acre parcel between Shookstown Road and the southwest fence line of Fort Detrick's Area B.
The "Dan Crozier Building", at USAMRIID, Fort Detrick, Maryland. The United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID; / j uː ˈ s æ m r ɪ d /) is the United States Army's main institution and facility for defensive research into countermeasures against biological warfare.
Oct. 30—On the corner of Chandler Street within Fort Detrick in Frederick, there used to be a cluster of World War II wood-frame barracks. That's where the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition ...
Since 2007, USAMRIID has been joined at Fort Detrick by sister bio-defense agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (NIAID's Integrated Research Facility) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) and the National Bioforensic Analysis Center).