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November 3rd, 2020 by Walter Pincus, | 0 Comments

OPINION — On August 6, 2020, an unusual, two-year, $870,000 contract for artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine imaging related to COVID-19 was awarded to Bunkerhill Health Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., for work to be performed for the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC).

The contract called for “the development of an algorithm that will detect, quantify, and predict outcomes of the novel coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) for use by the Department of Defense” over a 24-month base period.

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