COMBS is facilitating analyst workflows and collaboration, greatly accelerating the management of a bio-event, effectively implementing new capabilities and technologies, and providing opportunities for a wide variety of organizations to contribute data and tools that support their own goals while supporting and governing the ecosystem collaboratively.
Objective
The goal of DTRA's Biosurveillance Ecosystem (BSVE) program is to significantly reduce the time required to identify threats to human health and respond appropriately. The Draper Team is developing the Collaborative Overarching Multi-feed Biosurveillance System (COMBS) for BSVE to revolutionize biosurveillance (BSV) capabilities. Analysts will benefit from rapid and thorough information access, as will local public health authorities and individual citizens.