U.S. Centers for Disease Control

The purpose of the program is to evaluate the existing BioSense System from the public health science point of view to ensure it is useful both at the federal level and to state and local public health jurisdictions in supporting early event and situational awareness activities for bioterrorist and naturally occurring disease threats. Evaluation from an information technology perspective, including security, architecture and platform configurations, is being handled separately and not within the scope of this request.