ASPR and BARDA: Bureaucratic Dysfunction in Biodefense

'Established under the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act of 2006, ASPR and BARDA were tasked with responding swiftly to bioterrorism, natural disasters, and pandemics. Yet, over the years, their structure has become a textbook example of government inefficiency, burdened by overlapping jurisdictions, regulatory bottlenecks, and internal power struggles between federal departments...'

https://brownstone.org/articles/aspr-and-barda-bureaucratic-dysfunction-in-biodefense/