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Chaos, cash and COVID-19: How the defense industry survived and thrived during the pandemic
By: Aaron Mehta and Valerie Insinna March 15
Photo credit: Sgt. Wesley Timm/U.S. Marine Corps Photo credit: Sgt. Wesley Timm/U.S. Marine Corps WASHINGTON U.S. Air Force leaders faced a dilemma. The service needed a key raw material from Italy for one of its critical nuclear modernization programs. But in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, as industrial facilities shut down and transit between nations slowed, it was unclear how the material could reach the United States. Air Force officials were so worried that they eventually authorized military aircraft to fly to Italy to pick up the remaining supply in person, averting an interruption in one of the nation’s most strategic weapons programs.
Timothy Templet’s phone started ringing in mid-March last year and hasn’t stopped ringing since.
Puritan Medical Products Co., the century-old manufacturer of medical swabs in Guilford, found itself in the center of the chaos of the global pandemic and one of only two companies in the world able to produce the testing swab needed to diagnose COVID-19.
The calls that began on Saturday, March 14, 2020, were unlike any Templet, Puritan’s co-owner and executive vice president, has ever fielded before: The White House Covid-19 Response Team; Brett Giroir, the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health; the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King, among others.
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Public Spend Forum (PSF) is a public sector procurement global community and market intelligence platform dedicated to improving public buying everywhere. GovShop is its free-to-use global government market research tool for finding and connecting with suppliers. Read more from PSF and GovShop founder Raj Sharma here: Working towards a more open and accessible public sector marketplace – for suppliers and buyers.
This week s latest from PSF:
In this guest post, Dolores Kuchina-Musina, a Contract and Proposal Management professional, explores the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. Both programs are known as highly competitive and pride themselves on their encouragement of small businesses to engage with the Federal Government in Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) with the potential for commercialization. Within the programs there are three phases and one of those phases does not seem to fit
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Public Spend Forum (PSF) is a public sector procurement global community and market intelligence platform dedicated to improving public buying everywhere. GovShop is its free-to-use global government market research tool for finding and connecting with suppliers. Here s the latest from PSF:
Join Public Spend Forum on February 25, 1.00 pm EST, 6.00 pm GMT, as they release the results of their capstone six-month study in conjunction with Ivalua on Barriers to Entry in Government Markets. Explore case studies of solutions already underway to address those barriers. The agenda includes a review of study/survey results, panel discussion, and case study presentations on solutions. PSF is also honored to have Maj. General Cameron Holt, deputy assistant secretary for contracting, US Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, join them to share his insights on the challenges suppliers face in the public sector and the actions government agencies can take to redu