Report Casts Doubt On Biden’s Climate Procurement Push Absent Changes

Procurement and other experts are offering a series of recommendations they say are needed to bolster President Joe Biden’s efforts to step up federal procurement of low-carbon and other green technologies, raising concerns that agencies’ current structure, mission and culture may inhibit the effort given previous failures to meet similar mandates. The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a group that seeks to advance innovative technologies, issued an August report that details a series of barriers that the group argues...