CDC selects vendor for national biosurveillance program
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded a pair of contracts totaling $68.4 million to Science Applications International Corp. to help implement and support CDC’s BioSense national syndromic surveillance program. BioSense charts incoming health data about current patient symptoms from numerous military and Veterans Affairs Department hospitals to identify spikes of activity that might signal a disease cluster outbreak or bioterrorism attack. Full Story