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Summary The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) should be systematically incorporated into any U.S. government vision on international global health security. The United States should build on what has been learned and achieved through DOD support at home to the civilian-led Covid-19 response, as well as past DOD contributions to pandemic response overseas, and incorporate

This year marks three decades of collaboration spearheaded by the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program with foreign partners to

The agency is more quickly uniting them with sponsors, but 16,000 remain in government custody.

Noblis wins new work at Defense Threat Reduction Agency Noblis has scored a $263.3 million take away by winning a contract to provide the Defense Threat Reduction Agency with advisory and assistance services. The nonprofit science organization will support the agency’s Cooperative Threat Reduction Program through May 2026 if all options are exercised. Incumbent Booz Allen Hamilton first won the contract in 2010 and then the recompete in 2016, according to Deltek. The Defense Department awards...

Validation workshop: Assessment of animal health services, disease surveillance and legislation Format 31 Mar 2021 31 March 2021, Baghdad: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Iraq (FAO), in coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources (MoAWR), is implementing the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) funded project “Improving Delivery of Animal Health Services and Disease Surveillance in Iraq” to strength...

© Getty Images Just one week after taking office, President Biden reached out to Vladimir Putin seeking an extension of the New Start Treaty regarding nuclear arms control, even as he chastised the Kremlin for recent provocations ranging from the Solar Winds cyberattack of federal government computers to the poisoning and jailing of opposition activist Alexei Navalny. That exchange reveals how complex and difficult arms control talks have become in this era of renewed great power competition a...

9 The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP) works to improve biosurveillance, biosecurity, and biosafety in Iraq. As part of this effort, BTRP provides support to Iraq’s Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) and conducts laboratory renovations, equipment procurement, and associated training for the Ministries of Health, Agriculture and Higher Education. FETP develops Iraq’s field epidemiology workforce to rapidly identify...

Published January 12, 2021, 10:52 AM The United States Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), in partnership with the Department of Agriculture (DA), the Bureau of Animal Industry, and the local Cagayan community, has completed the construction and commissioning of a zoonotic disease diagnostic laboratory in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan.   It is located inside the Regional Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (RADDL) facility.  �...

Biden’s First Move on Nuclear Weapons When Putin calls to congratulate the new U.S. president, Biden should seize the opportunity. At some point in the coming weeks President-elect Joe Biden will likely receive a call from Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulating him on his election victory. Biden should seize the opportunity to provide an overdue reality check on nuclear weapons. Tensions between the two nations that possess roughly 90 percent of the world’s nuclear warhead...

Senate, he offered effective solutions to our national and international problems, advocating for the control of nuclear arms and other weapons of mass destruction, working with senator sam nunn, he established the threat reduction program, one of our countrys most successful national security initiatives, helping to sustain american leadership and engage nations in collaboration after decades of confrontation. he remains a strong voice on foreign policy issues and his informed perspective will ...