[February 1], ASPR’s Industrial Base Management & Supply Chain (IBMSC) Office launched Industrial Base Expansion (IBx) Connect, a web-based application that will be used to coordinate specific strategic innovation and industrial base expansion efforts across ASPR, federal partners, academia, and the private sector.  ASPR is particularly looking for solutions that can be applied to advanced manufacturing, personal protective equipment (PPE) manufacturing, supply chain optimization, and testing and diagnostic devices and consumable components.

The COVID-19 pandemic made it abundantly clear how important a robust and resilient public health industrial base is to ensure the health and security of the United States. The pandemic highlighted the need for critical public health industrial investments at a scale never seen before in the United States.

IBx Connect will aid ASPR in finding novel solutions that address vulnerabilities in the U.S. public health and medical industrial base and supply chains that are critical in public health emergencies. Of particular interest are advanced manufacturing efforts for drug substances and drug products; supply chain optimization; testing and diagnostic devices and consumables and personal protective equipment… Read the full blog post here.