{"id":100894,"date":"2020-01-15T13:06:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T21:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/national-bio-and-agro-defense-facility"},"modified":"2020-01-15T13:06:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T21:06:21","slug":"national-bio-and-agro-defense-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/national-bio-and-agro-defense-facility","title":{"rendered":"National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/national-bio-and-agro-defense-facility2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Location: Manhattan, KS<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"NBAF - National Agor-Defense Facility\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/st\/Web\/19_1219_nbaf_logo.png\">\n<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/nbaf\">National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility<\/a> (NBAF) will be a state-of-the-art biocontainment laboratory for the study of diseases that threaten both America\u2019s animal agricultural industry and public health. DHS S&amp;T is building the facility to standards that fulfill the mission needs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) which will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/usda-dhs-moa.pdf\">own, manage and operate<\/a> (PDF, 16 pgs., 165 KB) the NBAF once construction and commissioning activities are complete. The NBAF will strengthen our nation\u2019s ability to conduct research, develop vaccines, diagnose emerging diseases, and train veterinarians. DHS S&amp;T will leverage the facility as a national asset to fulfill homeland security mission needs.<\/p>\n<p>The United States currently does not have a laboratory facility with maximum biocontainment (BSL-4) space to study high-consequence zoonotic diseases affecting large livestock. The NBAF will be the first laboratory facility in the U.S. to provide BSL-4 laboratories capable of housing cattle and other large livestock. The NBAF will also feature a vaccine development module. For more information about the facility and intended use of its state-of-the-art features, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/nbaf\">USDA NBAF Program<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Manhattan, KS The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) will be a state-of-the-art biocontainment laboratory for the study of diseases that threaten both America\u2019s animal agricultural industry and public health. DHS S&amp;T is building the facility to standards that fulfill the mission needs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) which will own, manage [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,15,1495,1492,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-habitats","category-health","category-security","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}