NCC NBAF

Economic Development

• This facility will bring jobs and training opportunities including more than 1,000 construction jobs and 250 to 500 scientific, technical and administrative jobs. Projected facility construction cost: $450 million (DHS estimate).
• Construction jobs: 1,000 to 1,500 over a four-year period.
• Facility employees: 250 to 500 scientists, technicians and support staff. Economic impact to North Carolina: $1.65 billion during first 20 years of its projected 50 year life span (NC Dept of Commerce Fiscal Cost-Benefit Analysis).

Business and Education

• The NBAF will be a biotechnology magnet for private biotechnology companies, professionals and support infrastructure and will help anchor the biotechnology corridor in North Carolina.
• It will bring international recognition to the state and its citizens if North Carolina is selected for this facility. It will bring research dollars to North Carolina's top-rated universities and community colleges and to our large biotechnology industry
• It will generate new educational and training programs for our students and scientists and enhance collaborations across the state.

Safety and Security

• The vaccines and other technologies created at the NBAF are important to the health of our citizens as well as the national security of our country and are part of our first line of defense against threats to public health.
• Housing the USA's top disease diagnosticians and researchers in NC will allow them to work with NC industry, government, and academia so that tools, policies, and research will reflect NC's needs and conditions.
• Having the Nation's reference laboratories for animal and zoonotic diseases in NC will mean that authoritative diagnoses and decisions will not be delayed by sample travel time to another state - and hours can make a huge difference in response to an outbreak
• Cooperative and collaborative efforts envisaged between the NBAF and state government, industry researchers, students, and academia will allow NC animal/human biodefense systems, policies, and tools to improve beyond their current high standards.

Public Health

The NBAF will focus on economically important animal diseases, diseases that, if they came to our state could cost billions of dollars of damage to agriculture, to tourism, and to the general economy. The NBAF will also address zoonotic diseases - agents we share with animals - as part of a newly integrated national biodefense complex, on the cutting edge for improving public health and safety against new and emerging diseases. The NBAF's diagnostic capacities will improve our own response times and efforts, should a major disease outbreak occur in our people or our animals.