COVID-19: Industrial Mobilization and Defense Production Act (DPA) Implementation

Abstract

On March 18, President Trump issued Executive Order 13909, Prioritizing and Allocating Health and Medical Resources to Respond to the Spread of COVID19, which announced the Presidents invocation of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (DPA) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The administration has yet to publicly provide direction to the private sector under this authority. This Insight considers possible future DPA implementation processes, industrial mobilization, and congressional considerations concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, and is a companion to CRS Insight IN11231. See CRS Report R43767 for a more in-depth discussion of DPA history and authorities. For additional related resources, see the CRS Coronavirus Disease 2019 homepage.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 25, 2020
Accession Number
AD1099590

Entities

People

  • Heidi M. Peters
  • Michael H. Cecire

Organizations

  • Congressional Research Service

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Congress
  • Covid-19
  • Department Of Defense
  • Executives
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Health
  • Industrial Mobilization
  • Law
  • Military Acquisition
  • Mobilization
  • National Security
  • President (United States)
  • Production
  • United States
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Infectious Disease/Epidemiology
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.