The geographical location is shown in the file attached as Figure 2. (G13 Access Road, centre of south boundary, Latitude 50° 07-N, Longitude 01° 40-W.)
4. 每一设施的组织结构：
(二) 人员按军职和文职分列：
(三) 人员按工作性质分列：
Aerobiology, aerosol physics, mathematics, chemistry, chemical engineering, physics, bacteriology, biology, biophysics, bioinformatics, virology, genetics, immunology, medicine, veterinary science, microbiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, physiology, pharmacology, neuropharmacology, psychology, toxicology, engineering, electronics, ergonomics, hydrodynamics, information science, materials science, operational analysis, operational research, information technology, CB defence science.
Porton Down is one of the sites of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), which is part of the Ministry of Defence. Some work, approximately 8%, is carried out for other governmental and commercial customers.
(七) 下列方案领域的供资水平：
Staff at Dstl are encouraged to publish their work in the scientific literature.
Listed in Annex file attached. In addition, all recent Dstl publications are listed at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/access-defence-science-and-technology-research.
Personnel numbers given represent the numbers of staff involved in the biological defence research and development programmes. Further information on the total number of staff on site is as follows:
The organisational structure of Dstl is shown in the file attached as Figure 1. The facility provides research for all aspects of defence, including CBR. The total number of Dstl staff at Porton Down on 15 January 2019 was 2100 civilians (2001 permanent and 99 temporary) and 6 military. The civilian staff fall into the following categories:
Administration: 155
Engineers: 158
Managerial: 220
Professional: 241
Scientific: 1079
Technical: 247
TOTAL: 2100
Military personnel: 6
The work of Dstl, Porton Down has been reported under Question 1 of Forms A Part 2 (ii). Projects currently underway include:
- The assessment of the hazard posed by micro-organisms and toxins when used by an aggressor as BW.
- Research into systems to facilitate collection, detection, warning, and identification of BW agents. This work includes the evaluation of collection and detection systems in outdoor studies using microbiological simulants and research into the composition of naturally occurring biological aerosols.
- Research to establish the protection afforded by materials and CBRN defence equipment against BW agents. This work includes the evaluation of military equipment both in the laboratory and in outdoor studies using microbiological simulants.
- Research into formulations and techniques for decontaminating microbiologically contaminated equipment using suitable simulants.
- Rapid identification of micro-organisms and toxins by the use of monoclonal antibodies and gene probes.
- Studies on the mechanism of action and treatment of toxins.
- Therapies for bacterial and viral infections.
- Studies on the mechanisms of pathogenicity of viruses and bacteria and the development of improved vaccines.
(9) 包括病毒和朊粒。