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DHS Releases Draft RFP For Phase II of BioWatch Gen-3

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

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Keeping its options open as it moves forward with testing of a prototype next-generation biological-detection system, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a draft Request for Proposals (RFP) for Phase II of the BioWatch Gen-3 program. The DHS Office of Health Affairs (OHA) is currently field testing a prototype Gen-3 system supplied by Northrop Grumman [NOC] earlier this year after another team led by a division of United Technologies Corp. [UTX] failed to move on in the program.…

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