It invests approximately $3.1 billion annually across 12 components to fund small business solutions to military capability gaps for Special Operations Command (SOCOM), SOCOM, the Army, the Department of the Navy (DON), the Department of the Air Force (DAF), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), the Defense Health Agency (DHA), the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA), the Chemical and Biological Defense (CBD) program, and the Office of Strategic Weapons (OSW)
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It is used as a diagnostic agent and as a growth hormone secretagogue to stimulate endogenous production of human growth hormone (hGH) by the pituitary gland
Additionally, because injections bypass the digestive system, they are not subject to the exact breakdown and loss of potency that can occur during digestion
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