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I think what you're missing is that Biowatch Gen 2 (NOC's failure) is still alive and being funded.

Source: http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/sensor-technology-biowatch/ (2011)

BioWatch currently operates on an estimated annual budget of $85 million, and the annual maintenance cost of monitoring a single city is reportedly $1 million.

It doesn't make it clear on the link you posted, but I would assume it's annual gen 2 costs.

85 million for 2013 to run Gen 2.

89 million for 2013-2014+ for whoever gets Gen 3, Phase 2, Stage 1 contracts (announced by end of June).