Battelle announced these contracts:
• A two-year, $15 million agreement to provide medical readiness technical support for the Air Force Medical Service’s capability to send specialized teams worldwide to respond to anything that may involve contamination from weapons of mass destruction.
• A three-year, $9.2 million agreement to do studies and analysis for the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine to protect military personnel against chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear hazards. The contract covers the transition period during which the aerospace school will be relocated from Brooks City-Base in San Antonio, Texas, to Wright-Patterson, as part of the base realignment and closure decisions made in 2005. That move is to be done by Sept. 15, 2011.
• A three-year, $9.8 million deal to analyze and enhance the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear readiness and response program at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. It is part of the Air Force Materiel Command headquartered at Wright-Patterson.
Battelle, based in Columbus, has contracts with multiple Defense Department agencies.
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