FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreement |
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Federal Grant Title: FSIS FERN Cooperative Agreement CFDA Number: 10.479 CFDA Description: Food Safety Cooperative Agreements Federal Agency Name: Food Safety Inspection Service Category of Funding Activity: Agriculture Food and Nutrition Category Explanation: Information not provided Opportunity Category: Discretionary Funding Opportunity Number: USDA-FSIS-05032010 Document Type: Grants Notice Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement Posted Date: May 03, 2010 Creation Date: May 03, 2010 Original Closing Date for Applications: May 21, 2010 Current Closing Date for Applications: May 21, 2010 Archive Date: Jun 20, 2010 Expected Number of Awards: 1 Estimated Total Program Funding: Information not provided Federal Grant Award Ceiling: $400,000 Federal Grant Award Floor: Information not provided Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No
- Applicants Eligible for this Grant
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Additional Information on Eligibility
- Information not provided
- Grant Description
- The Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) currently comprises federal, state, and local government regulatory laboratories with varying capacities to perform threat agent testing. The FERN division in USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is seeking to award a cooperative agreement for providing and maintaining a secure communication and collaboration portal which will provide the FERN with capability, capacity and readiness data for the network member laboratories. In addition, this portal will provide for: (1) training event registration and historical tracking of attendees; (2) Just in time training with video and webinar capability to multi-agency participants; (3) proficiency test event registration and historical tracking of participants; (4) public webpage maintenance and enhancement and each (1-4) data set will be organized and output/reported in the format and manner specified by FERN.
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- Grant Announcement Contact
- Michael Myers Staff Officer Phone 706-546-3664
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