Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded a potential $27 million follow-on contract to help a National Institutes of Health organization update and maintain web-based repositories of viral pathogenic data.
The company said Thursday it will continue to support the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases‘ Bioinformatics Resource Center Virus online portals that are built to store information about virus proteomes and genomes.
The contract has an initial base-year value of $4.9 million and work is scheduled to occur through September 2019.
Eric Buice, director of health systems management at Northrop’s information systems business, said the company aims to help the government health institute fulfill its mission through big data and bioinformatics technology.
Northrop, Vecna Technologies and the J. Craig Venter Institute have worked as a team over the past five years to help NIAID build an integrated bioinformatics system for infectious diseases such as influenza.
The team will also maintain an analytics platform designed for government researchers to study, control and mitigate microbial pathogens under the follow-on contract.
