Aquilent Wins Contract for NIH National Library of Medicine Software Support Services; Aquilent Wins Contract Recompete for $25M and 5 Years to Provide Software Support Services.LAUREL, Md. -- Aquilent, Inc. announced today the award of a $25M, 5-year contract to provide software support services to the NIH "Not invented here." See digispeak. NIH - The United States National Institutes of Health. National Library of Medicine (NLM) Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC LHNCBC Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications ). The contract is the logical follow-on to work at NLM that Aquilent has been doing for the last 15 years. We will continue our support in areas including: Unified Medical Language System The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is a compendium of many controlled vocabularies in the biomedical sciences. It provides a mapping structure between these vocabularies and thus allows to translate between the various terminology systems; it may also be viewed as a (UMLS UMLS Unified Medical Language System (US National Library of Medicine) UMLS University of Michigan Law School UMLS UCLES Mailing List Service (University of Cambridge; UK) ), Medical Article Record System (MARS), Semantic Knowledge Representation, NLM Gateway and Content-Based Image Retrieval Content-based image retrieval (CBIR), also known as query by image content (QBIC) and content-based visual information retrieval (CBVIR) is the application of computer vision to the image retrieval problem, that is, the problem of searching for (CBIR (image) CBIR - content-based information retrieval. ), as well as many other projects critical to the success of the NLM. The Lister Hill Center is a research and development division of the NLM which seeks to improve access to high quality biomedical information for individuals around the world. It conducts and supports research and development in the dissemination of high quality imagery, medical language processing, high-speed access to biomedical information, intelligent database systems development, multimedia visualization, knowledge management, data mining and machine-assisted indexing. "Aquilent and the NLM have a long history of exploring the use of software technology to enhance public health information. Through their leadership, we've had the opportunity to work on ground breaking application of web technologies including UMLS and ClinicalTrials.gov," said David Fout, Aquilent's President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We are excited that NLM continues to value the quality of our employees and the work they do and we look forward to achieving award-winning and world-class results together." For the NLM contract, Aquilent will serve as the prime contractor and have as a subcontractor, SAIC, the largest employee-owned research and engineering firm in the United States. About Aquilent Aquilent is an award-winning company with a 25-year history of providing innovative information technology and web-based services to federal agencies. Aquilent improves the quality and efficiency of service to citizens, employees, and businesses through a suite of solutions and services, including enterprise acquisition and finance solutions, public and private web presence, regulatory management solutions, and information management and access systems. Additional information about Aquilent is available at www.aquilent.com. |
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