Sentence examples for former procurement from inspiring English sources

"What we can't afford from the defense perspective is a sick industry," said Jacques S. Gansler, a former procurement official for the Pentagon who teaches at the University of Maryland.

If Mr. Trump went so far as to say "who should compete, or how one company should be evaluated compared to another, that would be a first," said David A. Drabkin, a former procurement official at the Defense Department.

In June, in one of many examples, Iraqi authorities said that they were investigating possible kickbacks in connection with more than $300 million in purchases of defective and outdated helicopters, machine guns and armored personnel carriers by the Defense Ministry's former procurement chief.

She was most likely referring to the video in which Holly O'Donnell, a former procurement technician for a biomedical company, talks about having seen a fully formed aborted fetus, with its heart still beating, in a pathology lab.

Nevertheless, footage of this fetus is made to "illustrate" an interview with Holly O'Donnell, a former procurement technician for a biomedical company called StemExpress, which once worked with Planned Parenthood to collect tissue for medical research but no longer does anything with PP.

There are 93 of these federally financed offices nationwide, run by former military procurement officers.

A former U.S.A.I.D. procurement agent named Ibrahim wrote that he was stranded in Egypt after having paid traffickers twelve thousand dollars to smuggle him from Baghdad to Dubai to Mumbai to Alexandria, with the goal of reaching Europe.

For example, Tyson Foods, the nation's largest meat company, has complained to the Pentagon that some food companies have hired former military procurement officials to use their contacts to help win lucrative government contracts.

Bill Greenwalt, a former Defense Department procurement secretary who is now a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, suggested closer enforcement of Buy American laws could even bring retaliation from other countries, hurting U.S. sales.

Some of the companies best-placed to win contracts are, in fact, among the politically best-connected in Washington: the Fluor Corporation, which has ties to former Pentagon procurement officials; the Bechtel Group, whose officials include former Secretary of State George P. Shultz and other former Republican cabinet members; and Halliburton, where Mr. Cheney was chief executive from 1995 to 2000.

The former chief procurement officer of the housing agency was quoted as telling investigators that Mr. Jackson had told her that "it drives him nuts" when contractors made clear that they were critics of Mr. Bush but expected to be considered for government housing contracts.