Opportunity: Defending the Unseen Frontline: Advanced Technologies to Detect, Protect, and Recover from Chem-Bio Hazards

Opportunity Number:

DTRA-001

Opportunity Location:

Ft. Belvoir, VA

Opportunity Description:

In an evolving threat environment, the most dangerous adversaries are often invisible to the naked eye.

Chemical and Biological Defense (CBD) is dedicated to safeguarding personnel, first responders, and public health from toxic industrial chemicals, chemical warfare agents, biological pathogens, and deadly toxins. Overcoming these asymmetric challenges demands end-to-end innovation: developing rapid early-warning detection systems, engineering next-generation personal and collective protective gear, optimizing agile medical response protocols, and formulating rapid decontamination solutions.

This project invites you to stand on the frontlines of threat reduction. You will work alongside leading defense scientists to investigate next-generation strategies that accelerate hazard identification, disrupt toxin mechanisms, enhance physical barrier fabrics, and pioneer eco-friendly decontamination protocols to restore contaminated environments safely and effectively.afeguarding public health and national security from emerging threats posed by chemical agents, biological pathogens, and toxins.”

Opportunity Skill Set:

Biochemistry, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Microbiology, Immunology, or Biomedical Engineering.

Opportunity Host Facility

Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)

Ft. Belvoir, VA; Albuquerque, NM

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) provides cross-cutting solutions to enable the Department of Defense, the United States Government, and international partners to Deter strategic attacks against the United States and its allies; Prevent, reduce, and counter WMD and emerging threats; and Prevail against WMD-armed adversaries in crisis and conflict. DTRA’s core functions contain many enduring tasks and responsibilities as well as new efforts and initiatives to account for rapidly evolving technological and operational challenges. In all cases, the Agency adapts to address these issues more effectively by performing basic and applied research, exploratory development, and cybersecurity to meet our nation’s most critical science and technology needs. Scholars at DTRA can look forward to working within their Sponsoring Directorate applying their knowledge, experiences, skills, and talents to contribute to the missions of countering and deterring WMD and emerging threats.

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