◆ SpookStack

o& PD-302a (Rev. 10-6-95) t @ be b7c 279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID Continuation of FD-302 of a a | »On 01/15/2008 ,Page_ 2 uponl_] arrival at Usayerip[ vs briefed concerning th Division and its personnel; however had no — recollection of indicating tof] that IVINS was undergoing significant personal or famil roblems. F-—Lseaied that. on occasion [oe IVINS wou: omment concerning his marital status or the Li never knew whether to take IVINS serious or not recalled that IVINS was not open about his personal life. When| reported to USAMRIID indicated that the "writing was on the wall," explaining ata shift in research priorities from anthrax-vaccine work to other research had begun Poe explained that it became apparent from "[the command] across the street,"(Fort Detrick Command Staff) and USAMRIID Command, that funding for the various anthrax-vaccine research programs had dried up as there was a concerted effort to shift from vaccine research into therapeutics, as therapeutics was where the research funds were. Based on discussions at meetings, whose participants were: Because the remaining (i.e. anthrax-vaccine work) was viewed as menial in nature, and a waste of IVINS's talents, such tasks as validation assays, it was suggested that perhaps IVINS's should work on research pertaining to Burkholderia mallei. According cL _—dsi a consorted effort had begun to shift from anthrax-vaccine resea: ccine research in general to therapeutic research. | _|elaritted that the meetings and the subsequent plans to shift research priorities oc just prior to the end of fiscal year 2001 (August 2001). nn pee that word of management's intentions to shift anthrax-vaccine research had in fact filtered its way down to the individual researchers.