Justin Sanchez, Author at Defense Opinion

Time to Redefine Biosecurity as a High-Impact Strategic Necessity

Justin Sanchez August 5, 2025

Elevating AI and chips to national priorities is essential, but it’s also time to give biotechnology and biosecurity the same strategic focus. The U.S. should stop treating biosecurity as a low-visibility, high-impact endeavor and recommit to biotechnology as a launchpad for economic prosperity, with biosecurity as the guardrails that keep us accelerating in the right direction into the future.

Big Push Sought to Advance Domestic Distributed Biomanufacturing

Justin Sanchez December 1, 2024

The future of United States industrial growth, a key component of national security, rests in the establishment of biotechnology as a new pillar of industrial domestic manufacturing. Fortunately the opportunity exists to develop the science, infrastructure and workforce to do this.

Battelle is Key to the Nation’s Biodefenses

Justin Sanchez January 25, 2023

In biodefense, there is no more powerful a statement than the first words of the new National Biodefense Strategy: “It is a vital interest of the United States to manage the risk of biological incidents, whether naturally occurring, accidental or deliberate.”

Justin Sanchez

Time to Redefine Biosecurity as a High-Impact Strategic Necessity

Big Push Sought to Advance Domestic Distributed Biomanufacturing

Battelle is Key to the Nation’s Biodefenses

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