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$119,160,691

Department of Health and Human Services·Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response

to SHIONOGI INC

healthactive
WORK BEGAN2026-04-06·LATEST ACTION2026-04-20·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_75A50126C00004_7505_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

LATE-STAGE DEVELOPMENT, FDA MARKETING AUTHORIZATION, PROCUREMENT, AND STOCKPILE OF ANTIBIOTICS FOR THE TREATMENT OF DRUG-RESISTANT SECONDARY BACTERIAL INFECTIONS AND/OR THE TREATMENT OR PEP OF INFECTIONS CAUSED BY BIOTHREAT PATHOGENS.

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Late-stage development, FDA approval, procurement, and stockpiling of antibiotics for drug-resistant bacterial infections and biothreat pathogens.

Sub-sectors
antibiotic-developmentbiodefensestrategic-stockpile
Why this matters

Addresses critical gap in medical countermeasures for antimicrobial resistance and biological threats; 10-year commitment signals sustained biodefense investment.

Supply-chain signal

Secures domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity for strategic antibiotics; reduces reliance on foreign suppliers for critical medical countermeasures.

U.S.–China competition angle

Reduces U.S. dependence on Chinese active pharmaceutical ingredients for antibiotics; strengthens domestic biodefense resilience against state-sponsored biological threats.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-26. Cost: $0.002963.

Period of performance
Start
2026-04-06
End
2036-03-10
Status
activein 3527 days
Sources

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