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Homeland Security

DoD Issues RFI for Critical Reagents Program

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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

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The Defense Department has issued a Request for Information (RFI) under its Critical Reagents Program (CRP), which is aimed at serving as the principle resource of high quality, validated, and standardized biological detection assays and reagents that meet the requirements of the warfighter and joint biological defense community by facilitating the transition of new technologies and coordinating their advanced development, production and distribution. DoD seeks information from firms in the areas of: polymerase chain reaction and nucleic acid detection technologies;…

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