DoD calls for white papers on COVID-19

DoD calls for white papers on COVID-19

March 22, 2020

The Defense Department is looking for prototype solutions to combat the novel coronavirus disease and other emerging biothreats.


DOD is hoping to tap industry and academia for potential capabilities that will speed the development of technologies and methods that can prevent, contain, treat and detect the exposure of COVID-19 and other emerging threats, according to a March 15 contracting notice issued by the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity.


The presolicitation notice was made in partnership with the Army and the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC), which has members consisting of consulting firms like Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte and CACI to universities and tech companies.


Interested parties are asked to submit white papers for solutions, including diagnostic tools, prophylactics or therapeutics, or disease predictive modeling, patient monitoring systems, that can be deployed by Dec. 31.


Read more from FCW here: https://fcw.com/articles/2020/03/18/dod-coronavirus-industry-push.aspx