>> linderman: hi!narrator: that was trying to make its own swabs for coronavirus tests. >> by no means are we going into the swab business forever. this is a way to keep us operating at00% as more and more people came into the hospital. >> narrator: they were using 3d- printing technology. >> this is the final swab here. we need these swabs from everyone. like, producing it by manufacturing capacity is not there, so we need everyone firing on all cylinders in order to combat this, so we can get ourselves back to normal, and we wanted to ensure that the testing supplies were not limited by something as simple as a nasal swab. >> narrator: with such widespread srtages, the trump administration had to look abroad for help. >> we did not make any significant volume of supplies in the united states. i realized that i was going to have to fly material here, accelerating volume from overseas to the u.s. >> narrator: rear admiral john polowczyk was put in charge of a program called project airbridge that attem