The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology Directorate has released the 2012.2 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) solicitation. The funding opportunity invites proposals from small businesses with the capability to conduct research or research and development in any of the following homeland security-related topic areas: Continue reading
Biodefense News Headlines of the Week – May 20, 2012
WMD Civil Support Teams can respond faster than other federal assets | Lab security standards raise chances of mutant-bird flu catastrophe | How does the CDC respond to anthrax? | 16% of cancers are caused by viruses or bacteria | Controversy continues after engineered bird flu study published | Tiny tool can play big role against tuberculosis | Federal plan emphasizes resilience in national preparedness | Congress, bioterrorism and Asia | New biosensor checks for toxicity in real time Continue reading
Navy Medical Personnel Train on CBRN Decontamination
This month sailors from Naval Health Clinic Patuxent River’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Decontamination Team completed First Receiver Operations Training (FROT). The exercise, conducted on clinic grounds, simulated the arrival of contaminated warfighters needing medical attention. Continue reading
ClinicalRM Receives Military Medical Research Contract
Clinical Research Management, Inc. (ClinicalRM) was this week awarded a $597K contract by the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity in support of research studies at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR). The award adds to a string of support contracts awarded to the company by the Army and Navy in the past year.
In June 2011, ClinicalRM received a 5-year, $97M Continue reading
House Bill Revives Kansas Biodefense Lab
Yesterday the House Appropriations Committee passed the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2013. The legislation includes $75 million for the construction of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, Kansas.
“I am glad the committee recognized the continued important role Kansas must play in the defense of our nation,” said Congressman Kevin Yoder of Kansas. Continue reading
Army CBRNE Lab Team Tests New Deployment Concept
The U.S. Army 1st Area Medical Laboratory (1st AML) recently tested a new team configuration concept during a field training exercise at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.
The 1st AML is designed as a deployable analytical laboratory with a diagnostic capability to detect and identify environmental, occupational, endemic and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear Continue reading
Sandia Seeks POC Diagnostics Technology Transfer
Sandia National Laboratories is seeking one or more business partners to commercialize a technology they have developed for point-of-care diagnostics based on centrifugal microfluidics.
The technology transfer opportunity, called SpinDx, is based on an innovative technique for conducting simultaneous multiplexed immunoassays Continue reading