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Research Topic Description, including Problem Statement:
Nanotechnology involves the manipulation and engineering of nanoscale materials to exploit special properties and enable new applications. While such applications may be of benefit in delivering new solutions to global healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, and environmental challenges, there is a possibility of nanotechnology also expanding the pool of biological and chemical agents of concern. Some applications of nanomaterials may generate new threat agents, improve agent delivery methods or increase the threat from known agents. These new or redesigned threats will require proactive development of new countermeasures and new detection, identification and monitoring systems.
Applicants should approach the topic with the intent of including literature review and analysis of nanotechnology applications and trends with respect to potential chemical or biological warfare impacts.
Example Approaches:
Research proposals could approach this issue from a variety of disciplines, or as a cross-disciplinary effort. The problem touches on aspects of chemistry, engineering, applied science, innovation policy, and pharmacology. Proposals could consider the both the potential utility of nanotechnology to enhance or change chemical warfare and biological warfare agents, and ways to monitor and mitigate nanomaterial enabled threats:
Other avenues of investigation include:
Relevance to the Intelligence Community:
The incorporation of synthetic biological monomers e.g. nucleotides and amino acids into biological products and microorganisms may present a biosecurity risk, as the incorporation can impart structural and functional changes which in turn could lead to a different physiological effects. In addition, detection technologies developed for naturally occurring biological organisms and molecules may not recognize semi-synthetic versions, allowing their use to go undetected. In order to mitigate this risk, additional information is needed to characterize the changes that occur to the function of biological materials when synthetic components are incorporated, the types of physiological effects these can cause and the detection requirements to identify their use.
Nanotechnology is a potentially disruptive (emergent and convergent) technology with the capacity to generate new threat agents, or increase the threat from current agents. The combination of technological advances in this field, coupled with the limited regulations associated with nanotechnology, could result in proliferation of nanotechnology-enabled Weapons of Mass Destruction or Weapons of Mass Effect. A greater understanding of the latest technological improvements in nanotechnology, the potential applications of nanotechnology to CBW, and the prospects of technologies to protect/defend against nanotech applications, are critical to informing warnings, indicators and reliable monitoring for the intelligence community.
Information relevant to the intelligence community could be prioritized as follows (according to technology maturity):
Understanding these technological priorities will lay a foundation to provide analysts and policy makers with the information necessary to address risks associated with the field in terms of national security and global proliferation.
Key Words: Chemical, Biological, Warfare, CBW, Nanotechnology, Emerging Threats, Nano-engineering, Pharmacology, Countermeasures, Proliferation
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