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As Phase I of Bio Watch Winds Down, DHS Looks to Begin OT&E in Fall 2012

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its partners are wrapping up an analysis of field testing done earlier this year of the first operational prototypes of the Generation-3 BioWatch system with all indications that it “worked well,” says Bob Hooks, deputy assistant secretary for Weapons of Mass Destruction at the DHS Office of Health Affairs (OHA). Hooks tells TR2 that he’s not prepared to say the testing was “unequivocally” successful until the results are fully analyzed but he expects that…

Congress

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