Air Force Worried About Gut Illness
By
Bob Brewin
This FedBizOps <a href=https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=b3aef8f19fd2bd69b67e5d01c43cd0f3&tab=core&_cview=0>notice</a> on what it calls "Gut Illness" may not have much to do with technology, but it's so loopy I had to write about it.
This FedBizOps notice on what it calls "Gut Illness" may not have much to do with technology, but it's so loopy I had to write about it.
The Air Forces 374th Contracting Squadron at Yokota Air Base in Japan awarded a contract with an unspecified value to the New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research to study gastrointestinal illness among deployed troops.
This is one of those items that raises more questions than it answers:
--Is New Zealand bedeviled with gut illness?
--Is the Air Force researching gastrointestinal illness in deployed U.S. or Kiwi troops?
--Does the New Zealand Institute (misidentified once in the FedBizOps notice as the New Zealand New Institute for Palnt and Food Research, which really confused me) have more gut illness expertise than outfits in the United States, Japan or its antipodean neighbor, Australia?
I think this will remain one of life's small mysteries, unless I hear from some Air Force gastrointestinal specialists.