{"id":105169,"date":"2020-04-11T14:04:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T21:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/pentagon-using-defense-production-act-authority-to-ramp-up-n95-mask-production"},"modified":"2020-04-11T14:04:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T21:04:23","slug":"pentagon-using-defense-production-act-authority-to-ramp-up-n95-mask-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/pentagon-using-defense-production-act-authority-to-ramp-up-n95-mask-production","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon using Defense Production Act authority to ramp up N95 mask production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pentagon-using-defense-production-act-authority-to-ramp-up-n95-mask-production2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon is executing its first project under the authorities granted by the Defense Production Act in order to produce more than 39 million critical N95 masks amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the evening of April 10, the Department of Defense received approval from the White House Task Force to execute the first DPA Title 3 project responding to COVID-19,\u201d Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Mike Andrews said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe $133M project will use these authorities to increase domestic production capacity of N95 masks to over 39 million in the next 90 days,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon is executing its first project under the authorities granted by the Defense Production Act in order to produce more than 39 million critical N95 masks amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. \u201cOn the evening of April 10, the Department of Defense received approval from the White House Task Force to execute the first DPA [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}