Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Luminex Corporation, Austin, Texas, is being awarded an $11,640,787 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for development of a flexible and highly portable diagnostic instrument that will be capable of rapid detection of biothreat agents and host response biomarkers that are indicative of systemic disease. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, is the contracting activity.

InfoReliance Corporation, Fairfax, Virginia, is being awarded an $8,680,046 time-and-material with firm-fixed-price options contract for expert Microsoft consulting services to fully enable new technologies in support of its business and mission needs. Contract funds will be a combination of research and development funds, and operations and maintenance funds. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, is the contracting activity.

Shari Durand has been assigned executive director, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Maj. Gen. Jay G. Santee, USAF, has been assigned deputy director, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, is being awarded a $13,536,712 task order under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to utilize the Comprehensive National Incident Management System. The objective of this research and development effort is to provide high-performance computing methods for modeling very large socio-technical, biological, and information systems. These will be in the areas of surveillance and sensing integration; simulation-based course-of-action analysis and decision support; "simfrastructure" specialization and enhancement; infectious disease assessment capability enhancement; and large-scale network efforts. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, is the contracting activity.

Science Applications International Corporation, San Diego, California, was awarded a $23 million task order under the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) defeat technology contract for phase three of the Integrated WMD Toolset (IWMDT). The contractor will provide the development and integration architecture framework to support the Defense Threat Reduction Agency technology transfer, gateway and portal use. In addition, the contractor will support the development, maintenance, and update responsibilities as needed for common software and support documentation to efficiently facilitate tool developer participation and integration into the IWMDT. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, is the contracting activity.