FDA Hops On Big Data Bandwagon

InformationWeek: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded a five-year contract, worth as much as $50 million, to Dynamics Research Corp. (DRC) to prepare the agency's scientific computing capabilities for the big data era. The project will support collaboration among scientists inside and outside the FDA in about a half-dozen areas including drugs, medical devices, tobacco and food safety.

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