Invisible Battlefields: Creating effective vaccines with RAPTER

The third episode of Invisible Battlefields is here! In SBIR/STTR: Small Business, Big Impact, we dive into how small businesses can work with DTRA. Host Alison Director-Myska chats with Abigail Roots, SBIR/STTR Program Manager for JSTO Chemical and Biological Defense, offering an exclusive look into this unique small business program office. Don’t miss it!

Within DTRA JSTO is a program for Rapid Assessment of Platform Technologies Expediting Research. Scientists working on the RAPTER program are developing plug-and-play vaccine technology to create effective vaccines more quickly and efficiently. Join us in this episode of “Invisible Battlefields” as Dr. Tracy Pals, a DTRA JSTO scientist working on RAPTER, gives us an inside look into how RAPTER creates disruptive innovation in chemical and biological defense.

Join host Carl Brown as he and special guest Dr. John Hannan, Chief of the Digital Battlespace Management Division, in the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies Department, as they discuss the increasingly significant role artificial intelligence and machine learning has in developing protections against current and emerging chemical and biological threats.