Past Not Prologue For Bio-Defense.

• Author: Carberry, Sean
• Position: IN BRIEF

* Assistant Secretary of Defense for Chemical and Biological Defense Deb Rosenblum said she's afraid the Defense Department will learn the wrong lessons from the COVID crisis.

"I worry a lot that the department will in a knee-jerk way come to the conclusion that even in what has been the worst of times for us [the pandemic]... the department figured it out, so we'll be able to figure it out in the future," she said at NDIA's Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense confab.

The future will see biotechnology being weaponized, which could mean far deadlier pathogens than...