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Department of Health and Human Services·National Institutes of Health

to LEIDOS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INC

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

Supports NIAID's COVID-19 ACTIV3 research program through Leidos Biomedical Research to accelerate therapeutic and vaccine development.

Sub-sectors
vaccine-developmentcovid-19-researchnih-research-grant
Why this matters

ACTIV3 is a critical public-private partnership accelerating COVID-19 treatment and vaccine candidates during pandemic response.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for clinical trial infrastructure, manufacturing scale-up for therapeutic candidates, and bioanalytical testing services.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. investment in domestic COVID-19 therapeutic R&D counters reliance on foreign pharmaceutical supply chains and advances pandemic preparedness.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002260.

Period of performance
Start
2020-09-02
End
2029-09-29
Status
activein 1232 days
Sources

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