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Homeland Security

DoD Awards Cleveland BioLabs $9M for Medical Rad Countermeasures

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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

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Cleveland BioLabs [CBLI] has received a potential $8.9 million contract from the Defense Department's Chemical Biological Medical Systems (CBMS) Joint Program Management Office for the advanced development of Protectan CBLB502 as a medical radiation countermeasure to treat radiation injury following exposure to radiation from nuclear or radiological weapons. Earlier this year Osiris Therapeutics [OSIR] won a potential $225 million contract from DoD to develop its Prochymal adult stem therapy for the repair of gastrointestinal injury due to radiation exposure (TR2,…

Budget

House Appropriators Add Restrictions And Reporting Requirement To Battleship, Reject Cut

The chairman’s mark of the House Appropriations Committee’s (HAC) fiscal year 2027 defense appropriations bill funds the administration’s $1 billion request for the BBG(X) Trump-class battleship, but adds restrictions requiring […]

Congress

House Appropriators Concerned With ‘Risky’ Reconciliation Approach To Fund Munitions, F-35 Plans

The House Appropriations Committee has raised concern with the Trump administration’s “risky” approach to seeking significant fiscal year 2027 funding for key priorities such as critical munitions and F-35 procurement […]

Budget

Lawmakers Push Shipbuilding Accountability And Submarine Reports In House Appropriations Bill

The House Appropriations Committee’s mark of the FY ‘27 defense spending bill includes shipbuilding accountability provisions given increasing cost-to-complete requests and perennially delayed shipbuilding programs. The bill report said that […]

Congress

Six F-35Bs Delivered Without Radars Thus Far, Program Director Says

The U.S. Marine Corps thus far has received six F-35B fighters without radars, as the service waits on Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] delivery of the AN/APG-85 radar, which is to replace […]