Mitre - CDC - Covid Disease Surveillance Effort

Its broad expertise is now being employed to help yank America out of its Covid-19 crisis. In a $16.3 million contract signed with the CDC in late June, Mitre was asked to help build “an enduring national capability to contain Covid-19.” The CDC, which spent $20 million with Mitre on disease surveillance tech and services in 2019, hadn’t responded to Forbes’ requests for more detail on those pandemic plans. Meanwhile, on March 17, four days into the national emergency caused by Covid-19, the DHS Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) office called on Mitre to effectively act as a fulcrum of a pandemic response plan, to “engage, inform and guide” mayors, governors and emergency response leaders dealing with a pandemic. Mitre would also create disease models to track a pandemic and determine what “nonpharmaceutical interventions” (a.k.a. NPIs—think closing schools, stores and implementing social distancing) could help lawmakers “bend the curve.”