====== United States Department of Defense ======

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The **United States Department of Defense (DoD)** is an executive branch department of the federal government of the [[United States]].

===== History =====

In June 2007, the DoD issued a memorandum titled "Policy for Department of Defense (DoD) Interactive Internet Activities" to "provide information to the public, shape the security environment, and support military operations."((England, G. R. (2007, June 8). //Directive-type Memorandum DTM-08-037.// FAS Project on Government Secrecy. https://web.archive.org/web/20221212220521/https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/dod/dod060807.pdf))

==== COVID-19 ====

=== Vaccines ===

[[https://web.archive.org/web/20221227072301/https://www.keionline.org/covid-contracts|Hundreds of contracts]] for [[COVID-19]] countermeasures became available via [[Freedom of Information Act]] (FOIA) requests and [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] (SEC) disclosures in redacted form.((//COVID-19 Contracts.// Knowledge Ecology International. Retrieved December 27, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221227072301/https://www.keionline.org/covid-contracts)) A review of these contracts indicates a high degree of control by the [[United States Government]] (particularly the DOD and [[Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority]]) and specifies the scope of deliverables as “demonstrations” and “prototypes” only. In order to shield the [[pharmaceutical companies]], the contracts include the removal of all liability for the manufacturers and any contractors along the supply and distribution chain under the 2005 [[Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act|PREP Act]] and related federal legislation.((Latypova, S. (2022, December 28). //The role of the US DoD (and their co-investors) in “covid countermeasures” enterprise.// Substack. https://archive.vn/cXT0r)) 

All [[COVID-19]] countermeasures, including the biological warfare agents marketed as “[[COVID-19 vaccines]]”, were ordered by the DOD as a “large scale manufacturing demonstration” via Other Transaction Authority contracts.((Ardizzone, K., & Love, J. (2020). //Other Transaction Agreements: Government Contracts that Eliminate Protections for the Public on Pricing, Access and Competition, Including in Connection with COVID-19 Vaccines and Treatments.// https://web.archive.org/web/20221228192143/https://www.keionline.org/wp-content/uploads/KEI-Briefing-OTA-29june2020.pdf)) 

As described in an OTA overview document published by [[AcqNotes]]: "Other Transactions (OTs) are legally binding instruments that may be used to engage industry and academia for a broad range of research and prototyping activities. OTs are typically defined by what they are not: they are not standard procurement contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements. As such, they are generally not subject to the federal laws and regulations that apply to government procurement contracts."((//Other Transaction Authority (OTA) Overview// (p. 1). (2014). AcqNotes. https://web.archive.org/web/20221228204836/https://acqnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Other-Transaction-Authority-Overview.pdf))