Strengthening U.S. defenses against biological and chemical weapons is a critical national priority. Despite significant progress since the September 11 attacks, all levels of government must continually review their efforts to find better ways of securing America from biological and chemical attacks.

How CSC Can Help

CSC brings strong experience and far-reaching capabilities to two core areas of biodefense:

• Biosurveillance
  
• Biodefense vaccines and therapeutics

Why CSC?

CSC has supported most of the departments and agencies that have significant roles in biodefense. Because of our experience and relationships with the biodefense community, we have a thorough understanding of their component missions and existing capabilities.

Major Clients and Contracts

National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS), which provides accurate and timely reporting on outbreaks of infectious disease through a standards-based approach and a modular architecture for sharing surveillance data across programs and locales. Press release Case study

Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program, the Department of Defense program for advanced development of biodefense vaccines and therapeutics, which includes technology transfer, preclinical research, clinical trial management, manufacturing, risk management, storage, maintenance and licensure. More about vaccines and therapeutics

EPA Central Data Exchange, a Web-based portal and data exchange network that enables fast, accurate information collection and sharing among EPA and its partners, for 65 different programs. Press release Case study

WaterSentinel, a robust monitoring and surveillance system to detect high-priority contaminants by integrating data from traditional monitoring approaches with data from less-conventional contamination indicators, such as consumer complaints, public health surveillance and changes in water quality. More on water infrastructure security More on Environmental Solutions