Operation Warp Speed Companies

The department of defense hhs the food and drug.

Operation warp speed companies. The operation warp speed ows program was initiated by the trump administration to accelerate the development manufacturing and distribution of the coronavirus vaccines and treatments. As part of operation warp speed the us. Operation warp speed was started in the spring as a public private partnership to facilitate at an unprecedented pace the development manufacturing and distribution of covid 19 countermeasures according to the trump administrations own description of the program. Health and human services secretary alex azar has said pharmaceutical company pfizer is very much part of operation warp speed after the covid 19 vaccine maker distanced itself from the trump.

The companies include johnson johnson merck co pfizer inc the cambridge massachusetts based biotech moderna inc and the university of oxford in collaboration with astrazeneca plc as. Government has awarded novavax 16 billion to produce as many as 100 million vaccine doses while canada has an in principle agreement with novavax for it. The vaccines and the kits needed to administer the shots will be transported through partnerships operation warp speed has forged with private companies including fedex ups and the medical. Operation warp speed isnt an agency as such but rather a mechanism to coordinate among private companies and an array of us.

Operation warp speed ows is a publicprivate partnership initiated by the us.