Frederick, Md.
The Department of Homeland Security broke ground on the $128-million National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) in Frederick, Md., on June 26, 2006. The facility will be located at the new National Interagency Biodefense Campus (NIBC) at Fort Detrick which also houses laboratories for the Department of Defense, the Department of Agriculture, the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Slated for completion in 2008, the 160,000-gsf facility will house two research centers, the Biological Threat Characterization Center (BTCC) and the National Bioforensic Analysis Center (NBFAC).
