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DHS role and CBD R&D

• DHS has a unique niche for environmental BD within the federal government.
• DHS S&T CBD R&D addresses environmental BD more than human BSV.
• S&T supports more CBD activities related to sample testing (test development) and system configuration, and less work related to sample collection and processing or CONOPS.
• Most S&T CBD R&D activities related to aims to serve both DHS and non-DHS customers.
• The HSOAC team developed logic models to depict the activities, outputs, and anticipated intermediate and long-term outcomes stemming from S&T R&D in the key thematic areas encompassed by S&T; BD themes include developing tests for environmental detection, evaluating technologies and system concepts, performing research on biothreats and attribution of bioattacks, and providing resources, expertise, and facilities; BSV themes include developing tests for detection in humans, creating software prototypes and tools to aggregate, analyze, and display information and provide decision support, evaluating technologies and system concepts and conducting feasibility assessments, and engaging the public.

Non-S&T R&D related to environmental biodetection and human biosurveillance

• Illustrative inventories of non-S&T R&D (with 152 distinct activities related to environmental BD and 282 related to human BSV) included relatively little R&D activity related to system configuration or CONOPS compared with other taxonomy categories; about one-fifth of R&D activity — for both BD and BSV — addressed security concerns.
• Most of the non-S&T BD R&D in the inventories has been supported by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Defense, and the National Science Foundation (NSF); most BSV activity has been supported by HHS and NSF.