Aeolus Pharmaceuticals (AOLS)

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The question is: what can management do to fix this? I don't see guidance about requesting meetings or doing anything proactive other than "filing a response."

I hate to speculate about "WHY this happened," although I suspect that we're going to see a lot of this kind of bungling under thew Trump Administration. That is a waste of effort. I want to know what Cavalier and McManus are going to do to get that BARDA contract reinstated. Because without the BARDA contract, this is an entirely different kind of investment.

Hard to believe that the BARDA funding could suddenly disappear like this when government funding of BARDA did not significantly decrease in 2017. BARDA got $511.7M funding in 2017 -- only a slight decrease from 2016. Here are BARDA funding numbers for the past few years, in millions:

2017: $511
2016: $522
2015: $473
2014: $413

Project BioShield took a hit in 2017, oddly enough - Trump requested $350 million, but they allocated $510 million:

2017: $510
2016: $646
2015: $255
2014: $254

My sources (among others) -- 2016 and prior years:
https://www.hhs.gov/about/budget/budget-in-brief/phssef/index.html

2017 budgets under Price:
https://partyofreasonandprogress.org/blog/2017/02/20/tom-price-confirmed-health-human-services-secretary/