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Homeland Security

DHS S&T Issues RFI for COTS Portable Bio-Detection System

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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate, Chemical and Biological Defense Division has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to determine the availability of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) portable instrumentation capable of performing bio-threat identification from environmental samples. The bio-detector technology is intended to support multiple federal agency needs in rapidly and accurately identifying bio-threat agents in the field with a simple-to-use interface that integrates or minimizes sample preparation. Some of the requirements include being able to…

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