Project BioShield

Gottron, Frank

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Defense policy;    Weapons systems;    Counterterrorism;    Biolog;   

RP-ID  :  RS21507
RP-ID  :  RS21507_2006Jun05

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

Many potential biological terrorism agents lack available countermeasures. President Bush proposed Project BioShield to address this need and signed into law on July 21, 2004 S. 15 (The Project BioShield Act of 2004). The main provisions of this law include (1) relaxing procedures for bioterrorism-related procurement, hiring, and awarding of research grants; (2) guaranteeing a federal government market for new biomedical countermeasures; and (3) permitting emergency use of unapproved countermeasures.