NBAF

National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility

NBAF – Kansas State University has been selected as the future home of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) – once again highlighting the state’s deep agricultural heritage, bioscience expertise, research infrastructure, world-class animal health industry, and strong public support.

The $720 million research facility will provide the country with an urgently needed, state-of-the-art lab to protect the food supply and agriculture economy. Kansas is exceptionally well suited to accelerate the achievement of this mission. The new facility will research and develop countermeasures to combat “high-consequence biological threats involving human, zoonotic (i.e., transmitted from animals to humans), and foreign animal diseases.” Included among the diseases to be studied at the research lab are: Foot-and-mouth disease, classical swine fever, African swine fever and contagious bovine pleuropneumonia.

U.S Department of Homeland Security

U.S Department of Homeland Security

The NBAF will be operated under the authority of the United States Department of Homeland Security, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture Research Service (USDA-ARS) and Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, Veterinary Services (USDA-APHIS-VS) as primary research partners.

The facility, currently under construction, is located in Manhattan, KS. The 520,000 square foot facility is scheduled to be completed by 2016, become operational in 2018 and will employ up to 300 people.

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