The CBD S&T Conference is the most prominent chemical biological defense conference in the country, with top chemical biological researchers gathered to compare research methods and results, and to identify opportunities to collaborate on new research.

The Center sent more than 70 people to the biannual conference and presented 43 posters and 16 oral presentations to more than 1,100 attendees from across the CBD enterprise.

Jonathan Sampson, a mechanical engineer at the Center, took advantage of this opportunity to network and provide insight into new technologies he and his team have been developing. “This conference gives us the opportunity to share our current research projects, such as the new integrated respirator system my team at the Center is working on with our peers,” he said. “We use this opportunity to demonstrate our ability to come up with unique solutions to existing challenges and anticipate emerging challenges.”

Since becoming a part of the Army Futures Command in 2018, the Center has embraced the Command’s mission to deliver what warfighters need, when they need it, in a timely and affordable manner. The Center’s contributions at the conference demonstrate this through its research findings in the areas of detection, protection and threat evaluation methods.

“This conference is an excellent opportunity for our scientists to exchange ideas with the chemical biological defense community as a whole,” said Frederick Cox, Ph.D., director of research and technology at the CCDC Chemical Biological Center. “The conference gives our people the opportunity to gather together as one cohesive unit and engage with our partners. Only in a venue like this do our scientists and engineers have a chance to exchange ideas face to face with their peers and find opportunities for future collaboration and innovation to support our warfighters.”

CCDC CBC research biologist Aleksandr Miklos, Ph.D., discusses detection technology at the CCDC Chemical Biological Center booth during the 2019 CBD S&T Conference.