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Dear Student,
Biotechnology is technology that applies to and/or is enabled by life sciences innovation or
product development. Future advances in biotechnology will provide new capabilities to the
nation across multiple domains including materials, medicine, fuels, and food.
An agile and diverse biotechnology and biomanufacturing workforce is required to meet the
dynamic advancement required to analyze, develop, and field novel biotechnologies for the
Department. This biotechnology workforce, as well as academia and other STEM stakeholders,
form the foundation that is needed to support the workforce of the future.
By choosing a career in biotechnology and biomanufacturing, you enter a community of
professionals who strive to make a positive impact on the world by creating novel solutions to
difficult problems, such as brittle domestic supply chains and novel materials and chemicals.
Biotechnology includes a wide variety of disciplines including biology, chemistry, engineering,
computer science, and others, and that diversity of background and thought are the
biotechnology community’s strength.
As biotechnology and biomanufacturing workforce needs increase, I invite you to consider
the many possibilities of a career in biotechnology and biomanufacturing.
Katherine Sixt
Principal Director, Biotechnology
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense
for Research and Engineering
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