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

to THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC

biotechactive
ACTION DATE·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

Develop RITCA, a mobile and online application for regional disaster medical response coordination.

Sub-sectors
disaster-responsehealth-itmobile-applications
Why this matters

Strengthens U.S. emergency preparedness infrastructure by enabling real-time coordination among medical responders during disasters.

Supply-chain signal

Signals investment in domestic health IT capabilities and mobile health platforms for emergency response systems.

Generated by award_classification v1.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-14. Cost: $0.001224.

Period of performance
Start
2022-09-21
End
2027-09-20
Status
activein 493 days
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