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Medical countermeasures, field diagnostics, human performance enhancement, and biotechnology for NATO forces.
Force health protection and human performance are force multipliers. From rapid battlefield diagnostics to universal blood products and phage therapy, biotechnology offers NATO new tools to protect warfighters and maintain combat effectiveness in austere environments.
Military biotech: $8.5B. Point-of-care diagnostics: $15B. Wearable health monitoring: $12B. CBRN defense: $18B. Blood products: $4B.
Rapid field diagnostics. Universal blood products. Phage therapy for resistant infections. Exoskeleton augmentation. Cognitive load reduction. Explosives detection.