Pentagon Orders Machines That Can Disinfect 34 Million N95 Masks Weekly

A pharmacy worker sells N95 face masks in the Manhattan borough of New York City on Feb. 27, 2020. Carlo Allegri/Reuters

The Pentagon has ordered 60 machines that will be able to disinfect more than 4.8 million N95 protective masks a day.

The Department of Defense on April 13 announced that new decontamination units produced by Battelle—at a total cost of $415 million—will be able to clean each mask up to 20 times.