Principal Director: Dr. Katherine Sixt

• Mission: Assuring operational advantages through advanced biotechnology solutions and secure supply chains
• Vision: Support domestic biotechnology to fill capability gaps in critical military supply chains, simplify logistics, and provide materials with novel properties

Biotechnology delivers new capabilities to DoD and the warfighter by:

• Producing materials with novel characteristics and properties for military systems - such as advanced performance energetics and fuels
• Developing new methods for sensing and monitoring the environment and the warfighter
• Enhancing performance and protecting the warfighter from harsh environments
• Sourcing mission-critical materials without stressing fragile supply chains
• Improving interoperability, resilience, and robustness of critical components
• Reducing logistical timelines and burden for deployment and resupply by providing point-of-need biomanufacturing to rapidly produce materials and products in theater—such as fuel, lubricants, solvents, and medical countermeasures

Biomanufacturing – A Tactical Priority

• Establish transition partners for early-stage innovations
• Develop biomanufacturing through innovations in practice and application
• Map and measure the biomanufacturing ecosystem and tracking metrics to support future DoD biomanufacturing investments