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    The Project Bioshield Act was an act passed by the United States Congress in 2004 calling for $5 billion for purchasing vaccines that would be used in...
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    1997) Bioterrorism Act of 2002 (June 12, 2002) Project BioShield Act of 2004 (July 21, 2004) Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (September...
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    increased by $1.5 billion in 2003. In 2004, Congress passed the Project Bioshield Act, which provides $5.6 billion over ten years for the purchase of...
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  • legislations like Project Bioshield offers nations with counter measures against chemical, radiological, nuclear and biological attack." Project Bioshield offers...
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  • United States biological defense program (category Military projects of the United States)
    possess, use, or transfer Select Agents within the United States. The Project Bioshield Act was passed by Congress in 2004 calling for $5 billion for purchasing...
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    and she began to cry. Very soon, the left hand was extended as if in the act of taking hold of some object in front of her; the arm presently was agitated...
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    Preparedness Act (PAHPA) and reports to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR). The office manages Project BioShield, which...
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    Organization (JIDO) in accordance with the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). In Section 1532 of the NDAA, Congress directed the DoD to move JIDA...
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    Weapons School to Dugway Proving Ground. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Project Bellwether—a study of weaponized, mosquito-spread infections—was based...
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    contract valued at $877.5 million to provide the vaccine under the Project Bioshield Act. However, anti-vaccine activist Meryl Nass expressed skepticism...
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    legislation, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York negotiated a provision in the CARES Act that protects the island from being sold. Environmentalists had opposed the...
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    attacks and 2004 ricin attacks, Frist led the Senate to pass the Project BioShield Act, a $5.6 billion research effort to develop and acquire medical vaccines...
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    Response Act (2002) Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act of 2002 Project Bioshield Act (2004) Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of...
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    Response Act (2002) Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act of 2002 Project Bioshield Act (2004) Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of...
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  • Sunshine Project worked by exposing research on biological and chemical weapons. Typically, it accessed documents under the Freedom of Information Act and...
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    Reduction (CTR) program was initiated by the Nunn–Lugar Act (really the Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991), which was authored and cosponsored by Sens...
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    exercise and learn how "DHSES supports law enforcement specialty teams." Project BioShield. The accrual of vaccines and treatments for potential biological threats...
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    them by Australian authorities. The review was carried out by CSIRO AAHL Project Manager Bill Curnow and CSIRO Engineer Arthur Jenkins. They drafted outcomes...
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  • United States biological weapons program (category Military projects of the United States)
    a series of experiments with anthrax, code named Project Bacchus, Project Clear Vision and Project Jefferson in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In recent...
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  • forces, and is the progenitor of South Africa's biological weapons program (Project Coast). This epidemic is responsible for 10738 cattle and 200 human fatalities...
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  • Response Act (2002) Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act of 2002 Project Bioshield Act (2004) Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of...
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  • frontline healthcare workers. By April 13, 2020, HHS used the Defense Production Act (DPA) to contract for ventilator production with General Electric, Hill-Rom...
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    construction and related work on the NBAF under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014, signed into law on January 17, 2014. President Barack Obama included...
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  • Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) $510 million for BioShield Special Reserve Fund (SRF) $575 million for the Strategic National Stockpile...
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    early days saw the beginnings of the medical volunteer program known as "Project Whitecoat" (1954–1973). USAMRIID's precursor—the Army Medical Unit (AMU)—began...
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  • Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005 (S. 1873), nicknamed "Bioshield Two" and sponsored by Senator Richard Burr (R-North Carolina)...
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  • Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) of 1938 (Public Law 75-717) as added and subsequently amended by the Project BioShield Act of 2004 (S. 15, Public Law...
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  • year's budget. The drop was primarily attributed to the absence of Project BioShield money in 2006; the money for that year was already allocated the previous...
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    The Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 (BWATA), Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 101–298, enacted May 22, 1990) was a piece of U.S...
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  • USA PATRIOT Act, Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq, Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002, United...
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