Source:
MicroFluidic Systems, Inc.
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Posted:
17th May, 2004
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MicroFluidics Gains
Contract to Develop New Air-Bourne Pathogen System
MicroFluidic Systems, Inc. have announced
that it has received a contract for $4.5 million from the US Department of
Homeland Security's (DHS) Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency
(HSARPA).
The contract allows MicroFluidic Systems, Inc. (MFSI) to develop and build an
automated system that identifies air-borne pathogens such as bacteria, viruses,
and toxins. Systems to be developed under this HSARPA program are called
Biological Autonomous Networked Detectors (BAND).
The BAND proposal solicitation was a very competitive bid process with 136
white papers submitted and 14 encouraged for full proposals. Of the 14, six
teams were finally selected for funding. For this effort, MFSI is the Prime
contractor and will have several sub-contracts to various partners for
technology development and system testing.
MFSI will play the key role in turning this effort into commercially available
pathogen identification systems for the DHS and industrial market.
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