Biotechnology for Naval Applications

• Biomaterials and Biomanufacturing: Understand and develop advanced materials by applying biological paradigms to materials design, synthesis, and manufacturing
• Microbial Electronics: Understand and develop new sensing and electronic systems powered by biology

• Biomaterials Synthesis: Generate new materials from naturally occurring biological materials or using biological components or processes and the design and synthesis of biologically-based materials, including DNA nanotechnology as a tool for material synthesis, and synthesis and patterning of materials by microorganisms.
• Bioengineering and Biomanufacturing: Extend the natural capabilities of microbes by using synthetic biology to create systems that will produce Naval-relevant materials, including production, testing, and scale-up of biosynthetically produced compounds of interest.
• Biosensors and Bioelectronics: Engineer biological systems for environmental sensing, information processing with improved sensitivity, expanded analyte range, and decreased detection time, or for production of electronic materials and devices, including DNA based information processing and computing components, and mechanisms and characterization of microbial synthesis and repair of electronic components.

Note that this program is not investing in biomedical applications.