DOD, HHS Preparing for Large-Scale Manufacturing of COVID-19 Treatments

NextGov: As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, the only path to a healthy nation will be development and wide distribution of a vaccine to prevent spreading and treatments to heal those already infected. For the latter effort to be effective, successful treatments need to be manufactured at a large scale, and the federal government wants to help.

The departments of Defense and Health and Human Services—using an other transaction authority contract through Army Contracting Command—want to ensure therapeutic COVID-19 treatments can move from prototype to large-scale manufacturing and are developing a program to demonstrate such capabilities.

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