While the discussion of Iraq's procurement efforts is highly technical, it is politically very significant.
LCCS falls under a broad category of procurement efforts called global sourcing.
Likewise, procurement efforts from home produced little in the way of results-except that these refusals were at least sent with sympathy.
Iraqi officials in Europe have established front companies to disguise their procurement efforts.
The issue of procurement efforts remains under thorough investigation, and further verification will be forthcoming.
Administration officials said this week that there were nonetheless several areas of concern about the Pakistani research and procurement efforts.
No matter how well we place a contract, if there was no need for the material in the first place, our procurement effort and our money have been wasted.
Yet an inordinate amount of our procurement effort has been wasted in buying unneeded material and equipment.
Taiwan needs to focus its planning and procurement efforts on nontraditional innovative and asymmetric approaches - there is no single solution.
In 2012, a procurement effort for seven UAVs by 2019 was initiated.