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Army Revving Up Plans To Begin Acquiring New Bio-Surveillance Systems

Monday, July 25th, 2011

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he Army is well into its requirements building process for a number of new programs of record for biological surveillance capabilities beginning with the Next Generation Diagnostic System, according to a service official. Both domestically and globally there needs to be detection systems, a variety of public, point-of-care devices that have never been fielded before, Peter Emanuel, chief of the Biosciences Division at the Army's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, said at the Knowledge Foundation's Biodetection Technologies 2011 conference. These will…

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