
The Department of Homeland Security this week issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking comments from industry on available technologies for a new national biological threat detection system that would replace the BioWatch system, which began deployments in 2003 to major urban areas following a spate of anthrax attacks in 2001 done through the mail. The Biological Detection for the 21st Century (BD21) system of systems effort that will be overseen by the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Office…