The British government is expected to confirm early next week that it will
privatise part of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, which includes its
main weapons laboratories. But the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment
at Porton Down will remain publicly owned, despite its potentially profitable
work in areas such as vaccines. Earlier proposals to float Porton Down were
opposed by the US, which feared this would jeopardise sensitive joint
research.
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