procurement
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One of the procurement networks tried to buy manpads for Iran’s Center for Innovation and Technology Cooperation, which works to adapt foreign-made weapons to be produced at home, U.S. officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The charge will be reduced to 0.14 ringgit a kWh from 0.20 ringgit, improving project economics and potentially bringing forward engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning awards, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
The report added that the defence department is now working to "streamline procurement processes and production lead times" to address the shortages and "respond rapidly to a contingency".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
To deal with shortfalls and delays, the Pentagon is "working to streamline procurement processes and production lead times, and to stockpile critical materials, components, and selected munitions," the report said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
No sooner had Sherwood Butler, the laboratory’s head of procurement, set the final brick on a new building than his brother, Melvin, set about filling it with new employees.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
The committee has to sign off on any substantial defence procurements.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
By mid-2020, Peng “was no longer merely influencing the front end of procurements; she was requesting and managing a series of high-dollar Innive change orders herself,” the complaint states.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
The DPP budget includes up to about $30 billion of weapons procurements from the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
When asked whether it was struggling to find ports who would agree to moor the barges, the Home Office said it did not comment on "ongoing procurements".
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2024
But for Brutus, his friends and countrymen, both by divers procurements, and sundry rumours of the city, and by many bills also, did openly call and procure him to do that he did.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
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