Battelle snags $78.5 million contract renewal - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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The Columbus research organization was awarded anextraq $78.5 million through 2011 as the main contractorr for the Scientific Services program administeredx by the U.S. Army Research Officwe out of Research Triangle Parkin Durham, N.C. Under the any federal agency can get short term help to conducgt scientific or technical research or obtain analysis or Battelle can subcontract the work to businesses and It was the only bidder forthe contract. $32.4 million to evaluate and recommend stepa tomodernize chemical, biological, radiological and nucleatr equipment, then give recommendations for engineering and Of the total, about $96,000 has been assigned already. $5.
5 million to test technology againsf chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear attack for a programj to provide protective equipment at Pentagon About $1.5 million has been assigned so far. the world’s largest nonprofit conducts morethan $4 billion annually in research and development and overseex 20,400 employees worldwide. The institute also manages sevejn national laboratories for theand .