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Gen-3 BioWatch Moving Forward, Albeit Slowly

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Thursday, November 12th, 2009

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to review proposals from companies hoping to deliver a new-generation of bio-detection capabilities under the BioWatch program and expects now to award one or more contracts this month for additional development and field testing, a DHS official told sister publication TR2. The contracts will be for the Gen-3 portion of BioWatch and will permit DHS' Office of Health Affairs to conduct component, subsystem and system level testing. DHS had hoped to make awards…

Congress

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Congress

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Congress

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