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64E Veterinary Biomedical Scientist

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Overview

An Army Veterinary Biomedical Scientist plans, directs, executes, manages, or conducts research and acquisition programs addressing military requirements for medical material. The scientist investigates infectious diseases and chemical and biological agents, diagnoses exotic disease outbreaks, and develops and tests vaccines, drugs, biologics, medical devices, and other methods of disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and control.

Core Skills

  • Chemical and biological agent mechanism research
  • Vaccine and medical countermeasure development
  • Exotic disease outbreak investigation and diagnosis
  • Research program strategy and resource management

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists

Research on infectious diseases, agent mechanisms, vaccines, drugs, and medical devices transfers directly to biomedical research and medical countermeasure development.

How to prepare: Compare your existing scientific degrees and research portfolio with target employers' education and credentialing criteria, noting that medical scientists typically hold a life-science Ph.D. or a medical degree. Research positions typically do not require licensure, but treating human patients requires licensure as a physician or another appropriate healthcare practitioner.

What the civilian work involves
  • Evaluate effects of drugs, gases, pesticides, parasites, and microorganisms at various levels.
  • Plan and direct studies to investigate human or animal disease, preventive methods, and treatments for disease.
  • Conduct research to develop methodologies, instrumentation, and procedures for medical application, analyzing data and presenting findings to the scientific audience and general public.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • R
  • IBM SPSS Statistics
  • Microsoft Excel

Natural Sciences Managers

For officers who actually held research leadership assignments, directing laboratories, planning RDA programs, and managing scientific personnel and budgets transfer directly to research management.

How to prepare: Build a portfolio documenting your research budgets, staff responsibilities, and program outcomes, then compare your existing qualifications with openings that typically require a science-related bachelor's degree and several years of scientific experience. Some employers prefer or require graduate degrees, and some laboratory-director positions require state licensing.

What the civilian work involves
  • Hire, supervise, or evaluate engineers, technicians, researchers, or other staff.
  • Plan or direct research, development, or production activities.
  • Confer with scientists, engineers, regulators, or others to plan or review projects or to provide technical assistance.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft PowerPoint

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (5 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 64E Veterinary Biomedical Scientist

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 64E (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank officer, authority codeType officer

    Supports: Chemical and biological agent mechanism research, Vaccine and medical countermeasure development, Exotic disease outbreak investigation and diagnosis, Research program strategy and resource management, Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists (O*NET 19-1042.00), Natural Sciences Managers (O*NET 11-9121.00)

  2. O*NET: Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists (O*NET 19-1042.00)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: medical scientists

    [3] How to Become One; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists (O*NET 19-1042.00)

  4. O*NET: Natural Sciences Managers

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Natural Sciences Managers (O*NET 11-9121.00)

  5. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Natural Sciences Managers

    [5] Duties and How to Become; updated August 27, 2026

    Supports: Natural Sciences Managers (O*NET 11-9121.00)

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