Fort Detrick is a U.S. Army Medical Command installation located in Frederick, Maryland

Frederick, Maryland

Frederick is a city in north-central Maryland. It is the county seat of Frederick County, the largest county by area in the state of Maryland. Frederick is an outlying community of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of a greater...

, USA. Historically, Fort Detrick was the center for the United States' biological weapons program

U.S. Biological Weapon Testing

The United States biological weapons program officially began in spring 1943 on orders from U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. Research continued following World War II as the U.S. built up a large stockpile of biological agents and weapons. Throughout its history the program was secret...

 (1943–69).

Today, Fort Detrick's 1200 acres (485.6 ha) campus supports a multi-governmental community that conducts biomedical research and development, medical materiel

Materiel

Materiel is a term used in English to refer to the equipment and supplies in military and commercial supply chain management....

 management, global medical communications and the study of foreign plant pathogens.