Sentence examples for army procurement from inspiring English sources

"We have issued no contracts for any contractor to engage in combat," Mr. Lumer, the Army procurement official.

But they stemmed as well from how Army procurement officials write contracts and vet and supervise companies that receive them.

Mark J. Lumer, the Pentagon official responsible for overseeing Army procurement contracts in Iraq, said he had seen similar estimates.

But the Pentagon canceled that deal this month after protests by several competing companies led to a determination that Army procurement officers in Iraq botched the contract.

The Sunday Times claimed the former head of army procurement boasted about having spent the past 18 months working on behalf of an Israeli arms firm and had successfully lobbied the MoD to release £500m for a helicopter safety programme.

The brief then describes how, after a vague instruction from Mr. Clifford to an associate of Mr. Brown, Mr. Brown ended up in the Hobby Airport Hilton Hotel in Houston passing "a sealed envelope containing entertainment funds" to an Army procurement officer.

(This is a second marriage for both: His first wife was the daughter of Hun Sen's brother, while her first husband was the son of the army's procurement czar).

It had hoped to build hundreds more to replace its fleet of aging F-15s, and had an army of lobbyists, procurement specialists and legislators lined up behind the project.

The coalition has gone some way to tidying up the army's ruinous procurements and pepped up the Foreign Office a bit.

So clumsy is procurement, for example, that the army waits longer and pays more for a Russian-built tank than foreign customers do.

He admitted that the last major procurement of equipment for the army was more than two decades ago, but said sophisticated equipment was not essential for counter-insurgency.