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Department of Health and Human Services·National Institutes of Health
biotechactive
ACTION DATE2026-03-26·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_75N91020F00039_7529_75N91019D00024_7529
Award description

NIAID COVID-19 ACTIV3

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Funds NIAID COVID-19 therapeutic research and clinical trials through Leidos Biomedical Research.

Sub-sectors
infectious-diseasevaccine-developmentclinical-trials
Why this matters

Sustains U.S. pandemic preparedness and therapeutic development capabilities for emerging infectious diseases.

Supply-chain signal

Indicates continued demand for clinical research infrastructure, laboratory services, and biomedical contract research organizations.

U.S.–China competition angle

Reflects U.S. investment in domestic biomedical research capacity to reduce dependence on foreign pharmaceutical development.

Generated by award_classification v1.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-14. Cost: $0.001299.

Period of performance
Start
2020-09-02
End
2029-09-29
Status
activein 1233 days
Sources
  • Award record ingested from usaspending. Source identifier CONT_AWD_75N91020F00039_7529_75N91019D00024_7529.

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