Defense Threat Reduction Agency

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AbbreviationDTRA
PredecessorDefense Special Weapons Agency
Formation1 October 1998
Parent organizationUS/Department/Defense

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is an American government agency within the United States Department of Defense.

Activities

In 2008, DTRA awarded Black & Veatch a five-year Biological Threat Reduction Integrating Contract (BTRIC) for work in Ukraine alongside the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine (NAAS) and the State Committee of Veterinary Medicine.[1]

DOMANE

Discovery of Medical Countermeasures Against Novel Entities (DOMANE) is a DTRA program intended to rapidly identify drugs and compounds for repurposing against emerging pathogens.[2]


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References

  1. BTRIC Ukraine. Black & Veatch. Retrieved February 25, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220225024920/https://www.bv.com/projects/btric-ukraine
  2. Phillips, R., & Taylor, D. (2021, February 23). A New DOMANE for the Pandemic Era. DVIDS. http://archive.today/2022.03.12-032051/https://www.dvidshub.net/news/389661/new-domane-pandemic-era


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