Promotion and Protection Strategies
The Promotion and Protection Strategies program executes activities providing visibility, fostering partnerships, incentivizing industry transition partners, and supporting developmental network that serves as a nucleus of the defense industrial base for biomanufacturing. The program centralizes transition planning efforts for the Distributed Bioindustrial Manufacturing Program (DBIMP) by coordinating the Acquisition (e.g., Program Executive Officers, Program Managers, technology warrant officers, etc.), Policy, and Research and Engineering communities, including the Tri-Service Biotechnology for a Resilient Supply Chain (T-BRSC) program. The programs plans for transition of non-pharmaceutical biomanufactured materials and chemicals by integrating innovative biomanufactured products into DoW’s systems and platforms through holistic acquisition and investment strategies. Promotion and Protection Strategies represents the Department’s first coordinated effort to centralize acquisition efforts for biomanufacturing. By providing visibility, fostering partnerships across DoW, and incentivizing industry transition partners, the program will support a developmental network in which new technologies are not only pushed to higher budget activities from lower ones, but where personnel and industry partners at higher budget activities pull on technologies being developed at lower ones. This will serve as the nucleus of a defense industrial base for biomanufacturing that delivers innovative products into DoW’s systems and platforms. This directly supports the rebuilding of our military by providing capabilities matched with the threat, reviving our defense industrial base, and rapidly fielding emerging technologies. It also re-establishes deterrence by providing biomanufacturing capabilities closer to the threat or other logistically advantageous locations. Activities focus on efforts to supply DoW priority systems with critical chemicals and materials in support of production of material including munitions, hypersonics, and UASs, as well as point-of-need biomanufacturing in the INDOPACOM theater.
FY2027 planned work DBIMP uses authorities across budget areas to rapidly field emerging capabilities and streamline acquisition. Promotion and Protection Strategies (P&PS)(formerly known as Biotechnology Acquisition and Investment Coordination Effort (BAICE) is the 6.2 line that supports DBIMP by bringing together communities across the DoW to execute assessments ahead of DBIMP investments to ensure integration of innovative Bioindustrial manufactured products into DoW. P&PS does this by: • Proactive interagency collaboration to create and advance relationships that promote synergistic solutions to key gaps and weaknesses in Bioindustrial manufacturing for DoW systems • Assessing unique risks and…
FY2026 to FY2027 change The increase of $1.102 million between FY 2026 and FY 2027 reflects a ~$32% increase allowing critical assessments supporting technology protection efforts.
FY2026 plans — current year • Engage proactively with other Departments and Agencies to create and advance synergistic relationships promoting collaborative solutions to identified gaps and weaknesses by matching threats to biomanufacturing capabilities, investing in the bioindustrial manufacturing base, leveraging and improving existing acquisition processes, and rapidly fielding biomanufacturing capabilities. •Continue to assess vulnerabilities in Biomanufacturing of critical chemicals and materials that present logistical challenges in contested regions and austere environments to inform biomanufacturing industrial base investment strategy. • Continue to sustain DoW Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing investment…
FY2025 accomplishments • Test and identify pathways to increase domestic availability of critical cellulose for a more resilient energetics supply chain for DoD. • Engage and collaborate with United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)on agriculturally derived cellulose sources. • Assess vulnerabilities in Biomanufacturing of critical chemicals that present logistical challenges in contested regions and austere environments. • Continue to sustain DoD Biotechnology subject matter experts that shape and manage Request for proposal(s)(RFPs) for a 5 year $1B+ DoD investment in modernizing non-pharmaceutical Biotechnology infrastructure, products, and services for the benefit of the warfighter. • Propose solutions…