Lockheed wins $135 million CDC support contract
Company will provide operational and logistical services for various offices with COPTER; office provides strategic direction to CDC on all terrorism preparedness issues
Lockheed Martin has many friends in the federal government, and among them we must count the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The agency, we are please to report, has awarded Lockheed a $135 million five-year contract to continue providing support to its Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (COTPER). Under the agreement, Lockheed will provide logistical and operational support to various CDC offices, including the Strategic National Stockpile, Office of the Director, Division of Business Services, Division of Emergency Operations, Division of State and Local Readiness, and Division of Select Agents and Toxins.
COTPER, our readers may know, provides strategic direction to the CDC for all terrorism preparedness and emergency response activities. It also manages the CDC Public Health Emergency Preparedness Cooperative Agreement, which provides guidance and funding to state and local jurisdictions to enhance their preparedness and response capacity; oversees the CDC Emergency Operations Center; regulates entities that use or transfer biological agents or toxins; and manages the Strategic National Stockpile.
-read more in Mary Mosquera’s Washington Technology report
