Defense Assisted Acquisition (DA2) Cell
History and Mission
The Defense Assisted Acquisition (DA2) Cell serves as the single entry point to the DoD acquisition enterprise, providing policy and oversight to drive awareness and unity of effort for interagency requests for DoD-assisted acquisition. The DA2 has assumed the interagency efforts for COVID-19 medical resource acquisition previously coordinated by the DoD’s Joint Acquisition Task Force (JATF). Nested within the Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell (JRAC), the DA2 is poised to rapidly respond to the nation’s most urgent acquisition needs in current and future national emergencies.
At the beginning of the COVID-19 national health emergency, the Honorable Ellen Lord, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, established the JATF to synchronize the acquisition execution of DoD’s support to interagency (Federal Emergency Management Agency and Department of Health and Human Services) requests for COVID-19 medical resources. The links below reference the policies and authorities that enabled the JATF, and now DA2, to support the interagency.
- The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act
- Executive Order 13909
- Executive Order 13911
After the incredible success and lessons learned during the COVID-19 emergency response effort, the DoD recognized the need for an enduring policy and oversight acquisition assistance office. On October 13, 2020, Ms. Lord established the DA2 Cell within the JRAC to serve as the DoD’s enduring office for acquisition assistance.
Industry Proposals
We encourage companies to monitor the HHS Broad Agency Announcement website for additional government COVID-19 requirements.
News Stories
- DOD Awards $231.8 Million Contract to Ellume USA LLC to Increase Domestic Production Capacity and Deliver COVID-19 Home Tests
- DOD Awards $69.3 Million Contract to CONTINUUS Pharmaceuticals to Develop US-based Continuous Manufacturing Capability for Critical Medicines
- DOD Awards $110 Million Firm Fixed Price Contract Action to Puritan Medical Products to Increase Domestic Production Capacity of Foam Tip Swabs
- DOD Awards $15 Million Firm Fixed Price Contract to Corning Incorporated to Increase Domestic Production Capacity of Robotic Pipette Tips
- DOD Awards $4.8 Million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity to a Calibre Scientific Subsidiary, Anatrace, to Increase Domestic Production Capacity of COVID-19 Testing Reagents
- DOD Awards $2.5 Million Contract to Hollingsworth & Vose to Increase Domestic Production Capacity of Filtration Media
- DOD Awards $565,000 Contract to Freeman Manufacturing Co. to Increase Domestic Production Capacity of Disposable Gowns
- DOD Awards $11.6 Million to Puritan Medical Products Company, LLC to Increase Domestic Production of Swabs for Cue Health's Point of Care Tests
- DOD Awards $12.38 Million Contract to Siemens Healthineers to Increase Domestic Production Capacity of SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Tests
- DOD Awards $6.18 Million Contract to Medline Industries, Inc. to Increase Domestic Production Capacity of Surgical Masks
- DOD and HHS Partner to Award $119 Million Contract to Hologic, Inc. to Increase Domestic Production Capacity of COVID-19 Diagnostic Tests
- DOD Awards $12.67 Million Contract Action to InBios International, Inc. to Increase Domestic Production Capacity of Rapid Point of Care COVID-19 Infection and Serological Response Tests
- DOD and HHS Award $33 Million Contract to Tecan to Establish Domestic Production Capacity of Disposable Pipette Tips
- DOD Awards $6.98 Million Firm-Fixed Price Contract Action to Teel Plastics, LLC to Increase Domestic Production Capacity of Swabsticks for COVID-19 Testing Swabs
- DOD Awards $481 Million Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) to Cue Health to Increase Domestic Production Capacity of Point-of-Care Testing
- DOD and HHS Award $20 Million Contract to On Demand Pharmaceuticals to Develop Domestic Production of Critical Pharmaceutical Ingredients
- DOD Awards Contracts for COVID-19 Disposable Isolation Gowns
- DOD Awards Contracts for COVID-19 Reusable Isolation Gowns
- DOD Awards Goldbelt Security, LLC, $125 Million in Support of National COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy
- DOD Awards $10 Million Undefinitized Contract Action to Copan Industries, Inc. to Establish Domestic Production Capacity of Flock Tip Testing Swabs
- DOD Awards $750,000 for Manufacturing of Convalescent Plasma Products in Support of the U.S. COVID-19 Response
- DOD & HHS Announce DPA Title III Agreement with BioFire Defense, LLC to Expand Domestic Production Capacity for Molecular Diagnostic Testing
- DOD Awards $104 Million for Procurement of Syringes in Support of U.S. COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign
- DOD Announces Contract for 250,000 Curative Inc. COVID-19 Test Kits
- DOD and HHS Invest $24.3M in Becton, Dickinson and Company to Establish and Expand Production of SARS-CoV-2 Assays for BD Veritor™ Devices
- DOD Awards $51.15 Million Undefinitized Contract Action to Puritan Medical Products Company LLC to Increase Domestic Production Capacity of Flock Tip Testing Swabs
- DOD, HHS Award $7.6 Million Contract to Hologic, Inc. to Expand Domestic Production of Custom Sample Collection & Processing Consumables for COVID-19 Tests
- DOD Awards $2.75 Million Contract to NPS to Increase Domestic Production of Meltblown Fiber
- DOD Awards $4.9 Million Contract to Pall Corporation to Increase Industrial Base Expansion for Medical Ventilator Components
- DOD Awards $3.5 Million Contract to Crosstex International, Inc. to Increase Domestic Production of Surgical Masks
- Nitrile beutadine rubber (NBR) gloves production
- DOD Awards $13.5 Million Contract to Lydall, Inc. to Increase Domestic Production of Meltblown Filtration Media
- DOD, DFC Sign Memorandum of Agreement on Defense Production Act
- DOD Announces Defense Production Act Title 3 COVID-19 PPE Project: $2.2 Million Investment Will Increase U.S. Domestic Production of N95 Mask Respirator and Mask Ventilator Filter Production by Over 30 Million Combined Over the Next 120 Days
- DOD Awards $134 Million Contract, Providing Personal Protective Equipment For Medical Personnel At 15,000 Nursing Homes
- DOD Awards $138 Million Contract, Enabling Prefilled Syringes for Future COVID-19 Vaccine
- DOD Awards $126 Million Contract to 3M, Increasing Production of N95 Masks
- DOD Details $75 Million Defense Production Act Title 3 Puritan Contract
- DOD Details $133 Million Defense Production Act Title 3 COVID-19 Project
- Undersecretary Of Defense (A&S) Provides Update on DOD COVID-19 Response Efforts
- DOD Contract for 60 N95 Critical Care Decontamination Units: $415M Contract, Each Unit Can Decontaminate 80K N95 Masks Per Day
Additional Covid-19 Resources
- DoD's Office of Industrial Policy contains resources for defense industrial base companies and other stakeholders as they navigate the complexities associated with COVID-19.
- White House COVID-19 Task Force
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID-19 Information
- Defense Logistics Agency
- US Small Business Administration: Pay Check Protection Program
- Food & Drug Administration Policy for Diagnostic Tests for COVID-19 (during the Public Health Emergency)