Thursday, October 15, 2015

Vienna, VA., October 15, 2015 – AAC Inc. announces that it has received a CIO-SP3 unrestricted task order award of $7M over three years. AAC with its partner, ESAC Inc., will support the effort of establishing and operating the NIH Biomedical Standards Coordinating Center (BSCC) for the purpose of gathering and providing information, guidance, and links to widely used data related standards and resources for biomedical research. The BSCC is a portion of the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative, a trans-NIH effort where more than 24 Institutes and Centers will be working together to facilitate knowledge extraction from big data, the exploding quantity of biomedical.

Paul Thomas, AAC’s President and CEO stated, “We are honored with this opportunity to make an impact in the scientific community through our commitment to standards, quality, and service. We are pleased to continue our long history supporting the NIH, and are especially eager to help enable the critical NIH mission for our nation and the world.”

AAC has been a long standing partner with NIH supporting their efforts through IT services since 1984.

RELATED CONTRACT VEHICLE: NITAAC CIO-SP3

SECTOR: Civilian