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Coordinating with the Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE) and other partners--including the affected West African countries, WHO, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and others--to efficiently allocate resources and efforts to address the Ebola epidemic. Department of Defense (DoD) DoD is providing military support and funding to help control the Ebola epidemic. Specific efforts include: Sending a field-deployable hospital to Liberia and providing more than 10,000 Ebola test kits to the Liberian Institute of Biological Research and to Sierra Leone's Kenema Government Hospital. Overseeing the construction of and facilitating staffing for at least 17 100-bed Ebola treatment units across Liberia, Reprogramming $500 million in Fiscal Year 2014 Overseas Contingency Operations funds for humanitarian assistance, a portion of which will be used to fulfill requirements identified by CDC, USAID, the Joint Staff, and U.S. Africa Command to provide military air transportation of DoD and non-DoD personnel and supplies; medical treatment facilities (e.g, isolation units), personnel protective equipment, and medical supplies; logistics and engineering support, and; subject matter experts in support of sanitation and mortuary affairs. Redirecting $25 million to provide personal protective equipment and laboratory reagents, support for technical advisors, and other requests as validated by the DART. DoD has also requested to reprogram an additional $60 million to enable the Cooperative Threat Reduction program to address urgent biosafety, biosecurity, and biosurveillance needs in the three countries most affected by the Ebola outbreak, as well as bolster the capabilities of neighboring countries and other partners in Africa, Scaling-up the DoD presence in West Africa with the planned deployment of 3,200 troops, including 700 from the 101st Airborne Division headquarters element to Liberia. These forces will deploy in late October and become the headquarters staff for the Joint Forces Command. 'Commented [382]: 'sn't the reprogramming supposed to total $18? Note to HHS: CDC doesn't have the information to confirm this.