A researcher experiments in APL’s biomanufacturing lab. (Credit: Johns Hopkins APL)

Advancing Biomanufacturing for National Security

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Biomanufacturing—the use of microbial organisms to make useful materials and molecules—can help solve important national security challenges facing the United States, including making supply chains more secure, strengthening the defense industrial base, and producing materials for warfighters wherever and whenever they need them.

Researchers at APL are combining their technical expertise, creativity, and national security acumen to put biomanufacturing to work, developing tangible solutions to solve these national challenges.

We ultimately want to create bio-enabled devices that utilize the best of both worlds—biology and technology—to protect citizens, troops, our allies and the planet.

Sarah Herman Program Manager, Biological and Chemical Sciences
Sarah E. M. Herman

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