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$43,502,342

Department of Health and Human Services·Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response

to THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC

healthactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2022 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2022-09-21·LATEST ACTION2026-04-14·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_75A50122C00052_7505_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

TO DEVELOP RITCA AS AN ONLINE AND MOBILE PHONE-BASED APPLICATION. RITCA WILL SERVE AS A DISASTER RESPONSE TOOL FOR A REGIONAL AREA WITHIN THE BROAD RANGE OF THE MEDICAL RESPONDER COMMUNITY. THIS APPLICATION WILL ALLOW FOR SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHR

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In plain English

Latest $43.5M obligation on the RITCA program (begun 2022), developing a disaster response application for coordinating medical responder communications.

Sub-sectors
disaster-responsepublic-health-emergencyemergency-communications
Why this matters

Strengthens U.S. disaster response coordination capability by improving how medical responders communicate and coordinate during public health emergencies.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-12. Cost: $0.012788.

Period of performance
Start
2022-09-21
End
2027-09-20
Status
activein 447 days
Sources

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