§9202 National Bio and Agro-defense Facility

Summary

Create and run a national security lab called the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility. Its job is to do research, development, and testing to help prevent, detect, respond to, or reduce harm from animal pests, animal diseases, and diseases that can move from animals to people. It must protect the United States from biological and agricultural threats, whether natural or intentional. The Facility must protect the food supply, farming, and public health by doing eight main things: combining animal and zoonotic research; focusing on high‑risk and emerging foreign or transboundary animal and other biological threats; filling research gaps instead of duplicating federal work; helping carry out the strategic research plan under section 9203(a)(2); providing training and education for responses; sharing data with federal agencies for threat assessments; and building partnerships and sharing data to develop priority diagnostics, vaccines, drugs, and other countermeasures.