Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research

The Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR) is a United States Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) supported by the National Cancer Institute and managed by the private contractor Leidos Biomedical Research. The institution was originally established under the name Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center in 1972 as a component of President Richard Nixon's War on Cancer initiative. In 2012, the institution received a national laboratory designation and assumed its current name, becoming the only U.S. national laboratory exclusively dedicated to biomedical research. The campus in Frederick, Maryland also houses National Cancer Institute laboratories and administrative organizations, and is colloquially referred to as NCI-Frederick.

As part of the 1971 War on Cancer initiative, Richard Nixon requested that the United States Army transfer land and buildings which were then part of Fort Detrick to the Department of Health and Human Services in order to support the research efforts of the National Cancer Institute. The new laboratory was established in 1972 under the name "Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center" and received a designation as a Federally Funded Research and Development Center in 1975. This organizational model, also used by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory among others, specifies a type of public-private partnership composed of an institution that is owned by the federal government but operated by a private contractor.

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