More important is the General
General Gustave F. Perna is head of U.S. Material Command
They supply all the stuff that the Army needs
This guy knows the FAR inside and out.
Federal Acquisition Regulation is the key here because the US Government is acquiring the service of developing a vaccine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Acquisition_Regulation
This means inspections, verifications
Nobody is going to pull a fast one.
Plus, everything in the President's EO for modernising production of flu will apply here.
This is nothing less than reform of the whole vaccine business.