Proposed
Bill · 119th Congress · HR 6009
Defense Biotechnology Strategy Act
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Introduced 2025-11-10Topic: veterans military · technology privacySummary
AI-generated summary, report an errorThis bill requires the Secretary of Defense to send Congress's Armed Services Committees a strategy on how new biotechnologies affect national security within one year of the law taking effect. The strategy must cover building a network of commercial facilities to make defense products using biology, updating military specifications to use biotechnology-based products, and plans for advance purchase and offtake agreements. It must also address using biotechnology in wargaming, the benefits and costs of research grand challenges, a biotechnology regulation science program, and ways to work with NATO countries on joint purchasing and research.
Sponsors
- Chrissy Houlahan Democrat sponsor
- 2 cosponsors
Action history
| Date | Chamber | Action | Status effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-10 | House | Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. | refer |
| 2025-11-10 | House | Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. | refer |
| 2025-11-10 | Introduced in House | introduce | |
| 2025-11-10 | Introduced in House | introduce |