NATO Allied Command Transformation
March 30, 2022

NATO Allied Command Transformation Innovation Challenge Spring 2022: Resilient Bioresponse

Norfolk, Va – NATO’s Allied Command Transformation Innovation Hub is helping the Alliance find solutions to identify, warn, assess, and manage biological threats against NATO forces, Allies, and civilian populations.

…Co-organized by the ACT Innovation Hub and NATO Nations, the Challenge gives priority access to non-traditional innovators (academia, individuals, and start-ups) and expands NATO networks and collaboration with industry and academia.

The Innovation Challenge is open to all NATO Nations….

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The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare systemic vulnerabilities to highly contagious diseases in nearly every human society. No country or culture was immune, and each adapted under social, political, or economic constraints. Many experts called COVID a “dress rehearsal” for a much more lethal or transmissible virus or germ.

NATO forces must prepare for potential future contagion, which could arise from a naturally occurring disease, a rapidly mutating variant, or manufactured biological warfare agents. This preparation includes surveillance of dangerous diseases as they emerge.

Identifying, monitoring, managing, and controlling biological threats are critical to maintaining operational effectiveness, limiting casualties…

The Innovation Challenge relies on a fictitious scenario. In this scenario, the Alliance seeks adaptive measures of biological threats to help NATO military medical services prepare for and ensure the identification and monitoring of hazardous biological outbreaks….

The NATO Innovation Challenge is open to all NATO Nations and targets non-traditional actors.