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Homeland Security

Coast Guard, Interagency Group, Seek Proposals for Oil Spill Response Solutions

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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

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The federal government has released a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to collect white papers for potential technology solutions in response to the ongoing oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The BAA was issued by the Coast Guard's Research and Development Center (RDC) and the Interagency Alternative Technology Assessment Program (IATAP) workgroup, which is newly established by Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the National Incident Commander for the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The Deepwater Horizon federal response team…

Army

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Unmanned Systems

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Pentagon

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Congress

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