Europe Articles & Perspectives

We listed our six challenges for public procurement in 2015 at the beginning of the month. Here they are again. Challenge no.1; Implementation of New Directives Challenge no.2; Austerity continues Challenge no.3; Social issues Challenge no. 4; Value and Innovation Challenge no.5; The Fight against...

EU Public Procurement Directives targeting low tenders are beginning to be implemented following their adoption in April of this year. Three directives which would change the way public procurers treat abnormally low tenders (ALTs) must be implemented by member states before April 2016. However,...

Picture this: You show up to work, but instead of asking your colleague how their day is, a futuristic robotic vehicle is at your command. This is the Department of Defense’s vision for troop-helping technology on the battlefield. The end goal is for robots to act as artificial intelligence...

Episode 22 of the Public Sector Heroes Podcast feat. Florence Kasule Written by Talia Semaan  On the latest episode of the Public Sector Heroes podcast, we welcome self-described acquisition nerd and bureaucracy slayer, Florence Kasule. Florence is currently the Director of Procurement at United...

Back in 1983, Kraljic¹ stated that ‘no company can allow purchasing to lag behind other departments in acknowledging and adjusting to worldwide environmental and economic changes’. In essence, he was saying that as purchasing skills had been developed and established in an era of relative...

What do you get when you cross a rover and a drone? A RAVEN! The drone that may just be the future of space exploration is also known as Rover-Aerial Vehicle Exploration Networks. NASA has awarded over three million dollars to a group led by Christopher Hamilton at the Lunar Planetary Laboratory to...

What’s new in R&D in the realm of augmented reality? According to “9To5 Google,” Samsung is in the process of creating their latest model of wearable AR spectacles, called Glasses Lite. In the article, videos show how the model is wearing the glasses to play a car video game while a Samsung...

Moth + Flame, a startup that combines artistic prowess with engineering excellence to produce immersive virtual reality content, is helping prepare military service members to aid peers in emotional distress. In support of the U.S. Air Force’s mission to prepare airmen for engaging someone in...

Under a proposed bill, students studying artificial intelligence at either the undergraduate or graduate level will soon have the opportunity to receive financial support in exchange for agreeing to work for the federal government upon graduation. The AI Scholarship-for-Service Act is cosponsored...

With the first summer out of quarantine since the coronavirus pandemic began, families are planning where to spend their long-awaited summer vacation. Rather than the beaches or Disney World, however, travelers are flocking to towns such as Plattsburgh, NY,  Habersham County, GA, and Quincy,...

It has been almost twelve months since the Trump administration had awarded federal loans and contracts worth up to $1.3 billion to supply what was once considered an essential syringe to combat Covid-19. The fortunate firm receiving the majority of this funding, ApiJect Systems Corporation, has...

Pour yourself a steamy cup-of-joe now, because it may not be long until the long days of wine connoisseurs and coffee experts will be replaced by artificial intelligence machines to determine the quality and grade of such highly-esteemed drinks.  A newly-innovated artificial intelligence platform...