The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response June 16 announced the launch of the Digital Stockpile and Manufacturing Response Network Challenge, a three-phase competition to improve the rapid domestic production of key medical supplies for emergencies. ASPR will award up to $2.04 million to participants from industry, academia, nonprofit organizations and the government for concepts for the network. The agency said it will host a series of virtual information sessions on the challenge beginning in July. 

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Health and Human Services July 15…
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