Biodefense

Real World events require real world solutions. Early warning of chemical or biological warfare (CBC) agent attack using environmental monitoring is a critical element of the nation's homeland defense and field forward military strategy. The primary challenges in performing CBC agent early warning:

• Achieving sufficiently low false alarm rates to justify action
• Achieving sufficient sensitivity to detect modest releases while accounting for natural or man-made agent variability
• Limiting logistics burden and cost to enable wide-scale deployment