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DHS Moving Forward with Plans for New Bio-Detection System

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021

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DHS Moving Forward with Plans for New Bio-Detection System

The Department of Homeland Security Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Office has successfully advanced its plan for a next-generation national bio-detection system to the second stage of its acquisition life-cycle and is seeking feedback from industry on its ability to meet notional requirements. The CWMD Office on Feb. 1 released a Request for Information for its planned acquisition of a Biological Detection for the 21st Century (BD21) system of systems, saying the program has been approved to enter the…

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