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“DHS should plan how to buy selected biodetection technologies and provide them to jurisdictions that already participate in BioWatch.”
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“DHS should identify biodetection technologies that can meet its mission needs, using DHS planning documents and outside studies, including a 2021 review of the BioWatch collector network.”
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“Biological data should be organized and shared in ways that help research, but it should also be protected from misuse and security risks.”
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“Federal research money should be blocked for some risky biological research, some animal research tied to certain foreign countries, and some awards that could help foreign adversaries exploit U.S.-funded research.”
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“The federal government should manage biotechnology risks that could harm public safety, national security, supply chains, or the economy.”
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“The government should watch for security and safety risks from new biotechnology, but people may disagree about how much oversight and restriction is appropriate.”
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“The Defense Department should expand biotechnology work, including offices, programs, business support, supply-chain planning, a department-wide strategy, and ethics guidance for risky uses.”
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“The Defense Department should create a biotechnology office, make a department-wide plan for emerging biotechnology risks, and set ethics limits for using biotechnology with service members or military operations.”
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“DHS should review how it has used Energy Department national laboratories for homeland security research and create a biodetection research plan with those labs to send to Congress.”
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“DHS should help federal, state, local, and Tribal governments, colleges and universities, and private-sector partners decide what future DHS environmental biodetection programs need to do and what technology they need.”
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“Outside reviewers should periodically evaluate DHS biodetection technologies, look for gaps or possible failure points, and recommend backup plans if the technologies do not work as expected.”
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“DHS should update key congressional committees within one year on its Energy lab review and biodetection strategy, including problems DHS faces in carrying out the strategy.”
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“The federal government should use wastewater testing to help spot disease outbreaks early and guide public health action.”
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