time the administration has committed to purchasing tests to send to the american households. so is that asper or d.o.d. because of all the notifications of contracts signed, i ve seen them from d.o.d., not hhs. thank you for that question. we use we have a relationship with d.o.d. for assisted acquisitions so as per will request that d.o.d. put out a solicitation or manage a contract on our behalf. they are able to do it extraordinarily quickly and we ve had an mou in place with d.o.d. for this work that will run through june 2023. we ve used this relationship to purchase vaccines and therapeutics and now using it for testing. so the best i can find you mentioned 50 million doses.
this is the first time the administration has committed to purchasing tests to send to the american households. is that asper or d.o.d.? because of all the notifications of contracts signed, i ve seen them from d.o.d. i haven t seen them from hhs. we have a relationship with d.o.d. for assisted acquisitions. so asper will request that d.o.d. put out a solicitation or manage a contract on our behalf. they re able to do it extraordinarily quickly. we ve had an m.o.u. in place with d.o.d. for this work that will run through june 2023. we ve used this relationship to purchase vaccines and therapeutics and we re now using it for testing. you mentioned 50 million doses having been contracted.