BioSecurity
BioSecurity Consulting Services at Booz Allen
Booz Allen Hamilton works with public sector clients in the scientific, public health, veterinary, and medical communities that are facing new and complex BioSecurity challenges related to work with dangerous pathogens and toxins.
We deliver BioSecurity solutions aimed at preventing unauthorized access to valuable biological materials and related sensitive information that take into account all facets of comprehensive protection while preserving safety, transparency, and the flow of materials and information.
Our Work in BioSecurity
Booz Allen has extensive experience delivering BioSecurity solutions in demanding high-stakes environments, such as Department of Defense biological threat reduction programs in Russia, the Black Sea Basin, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. We attribute our success directly to a unique mix of physical security, executive protection, special operations, law enforcement, biological science, biosafety, and biodefense research management skills. Booz Allen understands all aspects of high-stakes BioSecurity: advanced, tactical security operations planning; BioSecurity threat assessment; high-containment laboratory design and operations; regulatory compliance; hazardous materials shipping and transportation; inventory assurance; regional disease foci; and training initiative development and delivery.
Our Capabilities
Booz Allen is the only firm that couples experience in security protection services, biomedical research, and biosafety to provide BioSecurity consulting services that account for all facets of protection. Our client support model follows a disciplined integrated approach drawn from best practices in systems engineering. With an international network in over 100 countries, our global operations base enables rapid engagement of new clients with critical BioSecurity requirements.
We support the global public health, biomedical research, and clinical and veterinary medicine communities (collectively, BioEnterprise) in a number of ways, including—
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Regulatory Risk Management — Booz Allen advises civil clients in the development of new regulations and guidelines, partners with international organizations to develop new global BioSecurity standards, and helps clients overcome challenges in conforming to new regulatory environments.
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Threat and Vulnerability Assessments — Booz Allen performs comprehensive BioSecurity site and community assessments, including environmental impact studies, and we provide BioSecurity threat assessment advisory services using a new and innovative approach tailored to client requirements.
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Biosecurity System Design and Operations — Booz Allen builds ground-up biosecurity system designs, develops BioSecurity operational procedures and concepts of operation, and designs customized BioSecurity system test and evaluation procedures and BioSecurity exercises.
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Threat-Assessment Based Investigative BioSecurity — Booz Allen offers advisory services to provide an understanding of BioSecurity threat and vulnerability space, applies a unique human-factors approach to identify potential threats in the BioSecurity arena, and tailors procedures for bioevidence collection in the investigation of BioSecurity breaches.
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Security Force and Response Force Training — Booz Allen offers specialized training curricula for security guard and response forces, permitting them to operate in biological containment laboratories, and we tailor procedures for BioSecurity breach response and site decontamination.
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Biosecurity Information Assurance — Booz Allen offers specialized training curricula for security guard and response forces, permitting them to operate in biological containment laboratories, and we tailor operating procedures for BioSecurity breach response and site decontamination.
Based on our experience in high-stakes BioSecurity, we have developed a unique approach to threat and vulnerability assessment and BioSecurity system design. This approach provides our clients with tailored solutions for global centers of excellence and small academic labs working with the most dangerous pathogens. We can apply our services individually or in concert according to customer requirements.
