Fort Detrick lab 60% complete, won’t be in service until 2009
Posted by Jeff Quinton on January 28, 2008The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center is one of several labs planned or being built for the National Interagency Biodefense Campus.
Construction on the $143 million project is on schedule at 60 percent complete, and should be finished by the end of 2008, said Kevin Anderson, the center’s acting science director.
A new Department of Homeland Security biodefense center at Fort Detrick should be open by the end of this year.
Officials tell the Frederick News-Post that labs at the center should be operating by the end of 2009.
Administrative staff will move into the building’s office spaces once construction is done, but it will take the Centers for Disease Control several months to certify the labs.
The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center is one of several labs planned or being built for the National Interagency Biodefense Campus in Frederick.
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