>>15715535 lb

see

>>15710045 pb

Battelle as a $59 million subcontractor at lugar Center has extensive experience in research on bio-agents, as the company has already worked on the US Bio-weapons Program under 11 previous contracts with the US Army (1952-1966). Source: US Army Activities in the US, Biological Warfare Programs, vol. II, 1977, p. 82

The private company performs work for the Pentagon's DTRA bio laboratories in Afghanistan, Armenia, Georgia, Uganda, Tanzania, Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam. Battelle conducts research, development, testing, and evaluation using both highly toxic chemicals and highly pathogenic biological agents for a wide range of US government agencies. It has been awarded some $2 billion federal contracts in total and ranks 23 on the Top 100 US government contractors list.

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/04/world/us-germ-warfare-research-pushes-treaty-limits.html

and

https://journal-neo.org/2019/01/13/lugar-biolab-will-the-truth-be-revealed-before-the-spin-doctors-label-it-a-conspiracy/