FILE PHOTO: A doctor wears a protective mask as he walks outside Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in New York City, New York, U.S., April 1, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid
The American military will spend $133 million to increase U.S. domestic N95 mask production by over 39 million over the next 90 days, Lieutenant Colonel Mike Andrews said in a statement. This is the first time the Pentagon is using the Korean War-era law to address coronavirus needs after it won approval late Friday from a White House task force.
The Defense Production Act, approved in 1950, grants the president the power to expand industrial production of key materials or products for national security and other reasons. Andrews said the Pentagon in coming days will identify the companies involved when the contract is awarded.
Never too late.
To which factory? ,3M in China?
3M patent is the reason the world won't have enough N95 masks. Only if you pay up then you can produce it....
What's this? In a world full of sophisticated factories making state of the art products such as luxury cars, phones, planes, games and what not, why's making a face mask such a challenge? What am I missing?
'I can't believe I got the contract. Now to cut up all these old T-shirts.'
Let me guess, his son in law Jared won the contract?
Only took them 2 f**king months to get their shit together.
The pentagon should have a billion masks as big as their budget is
Now America's favorite game: Which GOP lawmaker profited most from this contract...
Bout time, now let's get Mass TESTING WE need in order to get ppl comfortably READY to go back into their Environment. Else, we all will walk through the valley of Death... blindly
Darpa like wtf? DARPA How can darpa not make a face mask but Aunt Sally can?
;—}› show must go on!
If you read the article, 3M is mentioned. The article also mentions that the president praised 3M and said they were doing a good job, but a day earlier his comments were not of the praising type. Flip flops again.
مافيش دم ولا احساس
1 month later...
I month later. WinterForMT fail
Lmg who was awarded the contract: Tiffany “slave chains” & Co. or Bayer “cyanide” Pharmacueticals? I’m so curious
this headline should have been written on February 11 not April 11.
If there's a surplus of masks when this is over,we'll have to do our part by buying a few to thank them for the part they played in ending this!
California is getting 200M a month. Where would be without 39M masks thru Pentagon?
Withholding judgement on the Pentagon. I suspect they will get the 39m masks before HHS gets any of theirs. Trump announces something, nothing happens. Maybe the Pentagon will have better 'luck'.
The masks will be ready for sale outside the country
In 90 days!!! This needs to happen in less than 3 weeks!!! The private sector appears to be unable to step up to the plate.
Too little. Too late!
Great, more for Kushner’s federal stash while the states scrounge what they can 🤦🏻♀️
'AWARDING CONTRACT'
Trump said you didnt need them
A month too late.
Why didn’t this happen weeks ago? Or years ago for that matter?
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