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B -- FORCE PROTECTION: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE GULF WAR POC Point of Contact -- Contact Point, Ms. Karen O. Kolosvary, Contract Specialist, (703) 614-6846 Notice of intent to award a contract to the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) to provide a broad range of scientific, technical and policy analysis expertise to evaluate the Department of Defense's (DoD) efforts regarding force protection. The contractor will review the lessons of the Persian Gulf War and subsequent deployments in order to recommend ways in which DoD could enhance or improve its protection of the health of US military forces in the future. As part of this assessment, the contractor will review existing DoD procedures and science and technology efforts; evaluate and report on findings of previous studies of Persian Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses; assess health risks during deployments in hostile environments, assess past, current, and potential future approaches used by DoD for detecting and tracking exposures of military personnel to harmful agents; and review and evaluate medical protection, health consequences and treatment, and medical record keeping. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. A solicitation does not exist. (AC0528070-02) (0148)

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