With the U.S. Department of Homeland Securitys sluggish bureaucracy, money should trickle in near-term only toward procurement of protection systems for ports, rail and transportation infrastructure.
We review this approach in a case study of silk, a genetically programmable and processable biomaterial, which, in its natural role serves as a versatile protein fiber with hierarchical organization to provide structural support, prey procurement or protection of eggs.
Today, trade pacts like the TPP cover a broad range of issues including the environment, investment, labor, government procurement, consumer protections, and many more things we face in our everyday lives.
But the deal developed over the last several weeks between the United States and Brazil precluded any resolution on difficult issues like agricultural subsidies, patent protection and government procurement contracts.
Modifications of existing protection and optimal procurement of innovation are considered.
These efforts have all been a step in the right direction, but barely scratch the surface of the potential for a comprehensive solution for incentivizing human and labor rights protections through government procurement.
And in such tough times, how could an Ohio congressman give up the "Buy American" rules in government procurement, or a French MEP abandon protection for geographically unique brands, like champagne or Roquefort?
Add to these the exorbitant cost of hospital privatisation, computer procurement waste and the lack of protection for armed forces in the field and we have a picture not of random accidents but of sheer bad government.
They can be supplier interruptions that reduce procurement reliability, or difficulties with brand protection.
There are diversity metrics to report, complex "procurement integrity" guidelines to follow, and strict environmental protection obligations to uphold.
