How are these types of awards usually structured? Are they just grants? If so, doesn't that create a perverse incentive to take the money even if you never intend to deliver the result?
Someone already decided US should. The important question is whether 1B should have gotten the job done, and if not... is it matter of throwing good $$$ after bad $$$... or is it just bad sign 1B wasn't enough.
Looks like most/all manufacturing happens in the SEA/China, so I can see the logic that it could be considered a military risk for it to not be manufactured/possibility to scale manufacturing in America.
Asking this question only a handful of years after a global pandemic...
If the next pandemic is 50% deadly, not being able to make gloves is surely the canary in the coal mine proving we wouldn't be able to make any other PPE.
And no country can rely on another if it's do or die. Other blocs will keep to themselves.
How are these types of awards usually structured? Are they just grants? If so, doesn't that create a perverse incentive to take the money even if you never intend to deliver the result?
https://archive.is/wtC7m
Is this the new “China can’t manufacture a ball point pen”? (Which I strongly suspect they can do at this point. :)
A very important question to ask.
Should the US make medical gloves?
Someone already decided US should. The important question is whether 1B should have gotten the job done, and if not... is it matter of throwing good $$$ after bad $$$... or is it just bad sign 1B wasn't enough.
Looks like most/all manufacturing happens in the SEA/China, so I can see the logic that it could be considered a military risk for it to not be manufactured/possibility to scale manufacturing in America.
Yeah, you should make stuff medical staff needs.
Why not? It's a big place, it needs lots of gloves, it has (?) the raw materials, it has a large population. So, yeah, it should.
You could ask, oh, I don't know, "Should Ireland make medical gloves?"
Asking this question only a handful of years after a global pandemic...
If the next pandemic is 50% deadly, not being able to make gloves is surely the canary in the coal mine proving we wouldn't be able to make any other PPE.
And no country can rely on another if it's do or die. Other blocs will keep to themselves.
It's amazing how much those spreadsheet heads know nothing about how the actual world works
Yes. Next question
Also what the cost is. If the US really wants to reshore this sort of work then it will become materially poorer.
1-200% tariff applied at random if you don't.
The US started the tariff game btw