GSK, BARDA antibiotic pact: 1st biothreat 'portfolio' response

With the media run-up to President Barack Obama's 23 May counterterrorism speech focused on the use of drones – with the administration acknowledging in a 22 May congressional letter that four US citizens identified as terrorists had been killed in such US military strikes in Yemen and Pakistan – and whether the US will ever close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, the nation's preparedness against a biological attack may not get equal attention in his policy address at National Defense University in Washington.