Sec. 846. Existing agreement limits for Operation Warp Speed

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Any award made to a consortium under section 4022 of title 10, United States Code, by the Department of Defense on or after March 1, 2020, to address the COVID–19 pandemic through vaccines and other therapeutic measures using funds made available under a covered award shall not be counted toward any limit established prior to March 1, 2020, on the total estimated amount of all projects to be issued for a specified fiscal year (except that such funds shall count toward meeting any guaranteed minimum value). The Secretary of Defense may not award a follow-on contract, agreement, or grant for any award described in subsection (a)— until the limit described in subsection

(a)has been reached; until the term of the award described in subsection

(a)has expired; or unless such follow-on contract, agreement, or grant is made accordance with the terms and conditions of the award described in subsection (a). In this section, the term covered award means an award made in support of the efforts led by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense, known as Operation Warp Speed, to accelerate the development, acquisition, and distribution of vaccines and other therapies to address the COVID–19 pandemic, and any successor efforts.