“The agency’s National Biosurveillance Integration Center on Thursday began looking for groups to provide nationwide information on medical interventions, food safety, wildlife health, travel itineraries and other health-related topics.” “By plugging into that stream of data, NBIC could “improve its capability for biothreat awareness, detection, and information sharing to respond to incidents that may cascade into a nationally significant event,” officials wrote in a request for information. Among those threats are bioterrorism attacks, disease outbreaks and environmental catastrophes. “Officials specified the platform must include a handful of basic analytics tools that can signal unusual incidents and inform the agency’s broader decisions. NBIC doesn’t intend to build its own data stream, but rather subscribe to an existing service, according to the RFI.” Read the full article here. Source: DHS Needs More Data to Help Stop Bioterrorism – By Jack Corrigan, September 19, 2018. Nextgov.