Still in the running
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has spent millions of dollars to review and whittle down the list of 29 original parties interested in hosting its $450 million National Bio-and Agro-defense Facility (NBAF). Last month, the agency's team of experts narrowed that list to 14 potential sites based on four criteria: acquisition/construction/operations, research capabilities, workforce and community acceptance. The following is a list of candidates that have advanced to the next phase of DHS's site planning process. DHS expects to name the final NBAF site in early 2008.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has spent millions of dollars to review and whittle down the list of 29 original parties interested in hosting its $450 million National Bio-and Agro-defense Facility (NBAF). Last month, the agency's team of experts narrowed that list to 14 potential sites based on four criteria: acquisition/construction/operations, research capabilities, workforce and community acceptance. The following is a list of candidates that have advanced to the next phase of DHS's site planning process. DHS expects to name the final NBAF site in early 2008.
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (University of California)
- Georgia Consortium for Health and Agro-Security, two sites involved. (University of Georgia)
- Heartland BioAgro Consortium, two sites
- Kentucky and Tennessee NBAF Consortium (University of Tennessee)
- Mid-Atlantic Bio-Ag Defense Consortium (Virginia Tech, University of Maryland)
- Gulf States Bio and Agro-Defense Consortium (Mississippi State University)
- University of Missouri at Columbia
- North Carolina State University
- Oklahoma State University
- Texas A&M University
- Brooks Development Authority and Brooks City-Base Foundation
- Texas Research and Technology Foundation
- Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
- University of Wisconsin-Madison.
