Quick Hits

*** The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a new Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, designed to advance the use of data in public-health decision-making. GCN has more on this story.

*** The Navy has given industry a first glimpse at how the service branch plans to recompete its estimated $2.5 billion contract vehicle for hardware, software and other types of products and services for networks onboard surface ships. Washington Technology reports.

*** Fifty-eight percent of government workers in a recent survey from data analytics firm Qualtrics support COVID-19 vaccination mandates for all employees before coming back to work in-person. That's slightly less than the 60% of the overall employee population that backs mandates, according to the survey. Qualtrics surveyed more than 1,000 individuals, of whom 162 identified as government employees. Almost 30% of government workers said they would consider leaving their job if a vaccine mandate were put in place, with 21% saying that they would consider leaving a workplace with no vaccine requirement.