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By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, March 8th, 2016

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DHS S&T Issues BAA for Defense against Malignant Synthetic Biothreat AgentsThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate Chemical and Biological Defense Division has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for development of an architecture for defense against malignant synthetic biothreat agents. S&T is interested in system studies related to research to identify gaps in technology and operational concepts and to support formulation of requirements for chemical and biological countermeasure development. Specific areas of interest are transit…

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