March 2005
"Ft. Detrick
BIOTERRORISM business BOOMING!"
Government Security News MARCH 2005
GSN NEWS: "The federal government’s growing concern over
the threat of a bio-terror attack has led to a boom in business activity in and
around Fort Detrick, MD, one of the government’s premier bio-medical research
campuses. “Fort Detrick is growing by leaps by and bounds,” said John Gregg,
business development specialist for the recently launched Fort Detrick Business
Development Office (FDBDO). “As Fort Detrick expands and grows, there is a
significant amount of biomedical research going on. It’s growing.” Much of that
business increase is fueled by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which
is planning to build a $121 million National Biodefense Analysis and
Countermeasures Center (NBACC) as part of the Fort Detrick’s National
Interagency Biodefense Campus. DHS expects construction on the project to begin
in 2006 and to be completed by June 2008. Fort Detrick, located in Frederick,
MD, already hosts biomedical research facilities of the Departments of
Agriculture, Defense, and Health and Human Services. DHS’s NABCC will consist
of moderate to high-security bio-containment laboratories that will be used to
conduct research on dangerous bio-agents that U.S. officials fear might be used
in a future terror attack. Last fall, DHS issued the first in what will likely
be a series of NABCC solicitations, this one seeking proposals for the design
and engineering of the new biodefense research center.
Most recently, in late February, DHS issued a
request for vendor information to help it develop plans for the management and
operations of the NBACC, identify the level of vendor interest in the project,
and assess the strengths and weaknesses of potential bidders. But even without
the impending DHS research facility, Fort Detrick is an economic powerhouse,
generating more than half a billion dollars in business activity each year,
according to the FDBDO. So great is the complex’s growing need for goods and
services that the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA)
recently contracted with Lanham, MD-based Data Solutions & Technology to
open the business development office specifically to assist companies seeking
business with Fort Detrick management and its tenant agencies, as well as to
help those agencies find qualified vendors. “Our job is to connect people who
are seeking business with the people who are buying,” said Gregg. “Our role is
to serve as a conduit for anyone who wants to do business with anybody on the
other side of the fence. We facilitate the process. We’re the bridge over the
fence.” Under a $2.2 million, one-year contract, with an option to renew for
four years, the FDBDO aims to become what it calls a “government/industry
matchmaker” for contracting at Fort Detrick. FDBDO hopes to train government
officials in such areas as conducting market research and writing
performance-based services acquisition statements, as well as to educate
private businesses in such “how-to’s” as grant
proposal writing and obtaining security clearances. The FDBDO also plans to
help businesses of all sizes connect with the right purchasing officials, issue
advanced procurement forecasts, and conduct a multitude of other endeavors. “We
will work with people who aren’t yet in business to help them get started, and
we will work with those who have been in business for years to help them get
connected,” said Gregg. He said his office aims to eliminate the confusion that
exists when contractors and contracting officials do not know who to call. “If
you wanted to do business with Fort Detrick six months ago, you’d find all the
tenants and go on their Web site, and you’d call them one by one to find out if
there’s any opportunity or not,” he said. “The idea [of FDBDO] is we are
building that network of contacts. You come in and talk to us, and we will talk
to the folks who can make a difference.” He also said that his office could
save vendors time and money if there are no contracting opportunities for them
at Fort Detrick. “Let’s be honest. If there’s no business for you, we will tell
you you’re barking up the wrong tree,” he said. And even if no immediate
opportunity exists for a contractor, a phone call to the FDBDO may pay
dividends later, Gregg said. “What we’re going to end up with is a database of
people who have contacted this office who are interested in doing business with
Fort Detrick and a database that we will use of the points of contact within
Fort Detrick,” he said, adding that such contact information would make it
easier for contracting officers to connect with qualified vendors. Best of all,
FDBDO offers its services at no charge to the end user, a fact which could make
the office very popular very quickly. In fact, Gregg said his office began
receiving phone calls even before its official ribbon-cutting debut on March 22
2005. More information about the Fort Detrick Business
Development Office can be found on its Website at www.fdbdo.com .
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8 in this PDF file of the original 2005 magazine feature articles ....
https://web.archive.org/web/20060316225822/http:/www.gsnmagazine.com/pdfs/19_Mar_05.pdf
Additional 2005 bulletin on Fort
Detrick and Global Players aggressive “medical database” surveillance and
storage of your personal information….
https://web.archive.org/web/20190805232304/http:/www.angelfire.com/blog/zog/Fort_Detrick-HHS.html
https://kal007mystery.tripod.com/PROMIS-the-End-Game-of-Humanity.html 2005 --- In the not so distant future, CDC
working with HHS & DHS will promote a pandemic event
so that they can vaccinate most of humanity and at the same time inject them
with nanobots linked to AI which tracks them and stores all their medical and
credit histories & geographic tracking for central control
agencies to know their every thought and action! FOR YOUR SAFETY! Thank you!
Updates:
CDC Lifts Shutdown Order on Army Biolabs at Fort Detrick
Will Washington
allow the WHO & global NGOs to investigate its military bio labs?
Short VIDEO
explains it clearly!
Aberdeen Proving Ground opened in 1917 as the United States
entered World War I in the midst of global TB outbreaks & the early spread
of the inappropriately named "Spanish Flu" during an era of massive
chemical & germ trench warfare, and it is Harford County’s largest employer
with more than 21,000 civilian Defense Department workers, soldiers and
military contractors. They are tasked with missions such as testing weapons,
vehicles and equipment, cyber security, protection from nuclear, chemical,
biological or explosive attacks and medical research.
The military began exploring privatizing on-base housing in
1996, when Congress approved the Residential Communities Initiative. Corvias, under the leadership of CEO John Picerne, decided to get into military housing. The company,
at the time, was called Picerne Military Housing and
was part of the Picerne Real Estate Group. The Army
selected the company to privatize housing at Fort Meade in 2001, according to
the Corvias website. The firm has been featured in
extensive investigative reporting by Reuters on the state of military housing
around the country, with allegations of deplorable conditions such as mold,
rodents and structures that are falling apart, leading to long-term health
effects for military personnel and their families.
"We let down some of our residents,” Picerne
said during a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee in
mid-February, according to CBS News. “I am sorry and we are going to fix it.” https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/harford/aegis/ph-ag-aberdeen-proving-ground-housing-0227-story.html
PROMIS morphed into
PRISM & then
metastasized into Cov19 global Surveillance!
https://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/haarpmicrowaves/Promis-Prism-AI-takeover.htm
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