Operation Warp Speed Organization Chart
Operation warp speeds goal is to produce and deliver 300 million doses of safe and effective vaccines with the initial doses available by january 2021 as part of a broader strategy to accelerate the development manufacturing and distribution of covid 19 vaccines therapeutics and diagnostics collectively known as countermeasures.
Operation warp speed organization chart. On friday the trump administration announced the appointment of moncef slaoui as chief advisor and general gustave f. The initiative to accelerate the development of covid 19 vaccines and therapeutics lacks the scale and the degree of secrecy of the effort to build the atomic bomb. The chart as outlined by stat news on september 28 shows that roughly 60 military officials including at least four generals are involved in the leadership of operation warp speed many of whom have never worked in health care or vaccine development. Like all federal efforts it carries both a price tag and an organizational chart.
Operation warp speed ows is a publicprivate partnership initiated by the trump administration to facilitate and accelerate the development manufacturing and distribution of covid 19 vaccines therapeutics and diagnosticsoperation warp speed was introduced in early april 2020 after a round table meeting with industry executives at the white house on march 2. Operation warp speed is the name of the federal effort to quickly bring a covid 19 vaccine to the public. Roughly 60 work for the department of defense. Private sector operation warp speed ows will accelerate the testing supply development and.
Now an organizational chart of the 10 billion initiative obtained by stat reveals the fullest picture yet of operation warp speed. Military officials however contend that the us. The july 30 operation warp speed organizational chart obtained by stat details about 90 of the officials involved in the initiative. By chuck dinerstein md mba september 30 2020.
Operation warp speed using the resources of the federal government and the us. The labyrinthine chart dated july 30 shows that roughly 60 military officials including at least four generals are involved in the leadership of operation warp speed many of whom have never. Just 29 of the roughly 90 leaders on the chart arent employed by the department. Operation warp speed has billions in secret covid 19 vaccine contracts bypassing usual methods of scrutiny by using an intermediary organization.
Army excels at complex challenges like distributing vaccines that might need to be transported at subzero temperatures.