| name | mission-public-procurement-for-frontier-technology |
| description | Strategic mission (cross-cutting national capability): **Public Procurement for Frontier Technology** — Turn national needs into early markets for high-value technologies. Unlike the sector operating systems, a mission composes several of them toward one strategic objective. Use this skill to plan or coordinate this mission end-to-end; trigger whenever work concerns public procurement for frontier technology, even if the user only names a piece of it. |
Strategic Mission — Public Procurement for Frontier Technology
Layer: Strategic mission (cross-cutting capability that composes multiple operating systems)
Shared concepts: ../../00-framework/SKILL.md · Imported/adapted from the Agentic-Workforce operating models
Purpose
Use public demand to accelerate strategic technology deployment while preserving competition, transparency, safety, and accountability.
Mission
Turn national needs into early markets for high-value technologies.
Operating systems this mission composes
A strategic mission is an orthogonal axis to the sectors: it pulls roles and capabilities from several of them toward one objective. This mission primarily draws on:
Deploy the relevant sector and role skills under those operating systems as the building blocks; this skill coordinates them toward the mission.
Core capabilities
- Mission-driven requirements.
- Challenge procurement.
- Testbeds and pilots.
- Outcome-based contracts.
- Safety and evaluation gates.
- Vendor risk management.
- Domestic/allied supply-chain requirements.
- Scale-up pathways after pilots.
Human command roles
- Procurement innovation lead.
- Technical buyer.
- Mission owner.
- Evaluation lead.
- Vendor risk lead.
- Contracting officer.
- Public accountability officer.
These hold accountability for the mission. Strategic prioritization, public legitimacy, security, and ethical tradeoffs stay human-owned.
AI personnel
- Procurement agent.
- Market intelligence agent.
- RFP drafting agent.
- Vendor risk agent.
- Evaluation evidence agent.
- Contract obligation tracker.
- Cost-benefit simulator.
Many of these map to existing role skills in the composed operating systems (e.g. _catalogs/ai-personnel/ and the sectors' roles/). Reuse them rather than rebuilding.
Robot / machine personnel
- Receiving/inventory robot.
- Testbed support robot.
- Inspection robot for physical pilots.
See _catalogs/humanoid-robots/, _catalogs/autonomous-machines/, and the sectors' robots/ and autonomous/ folders.
Operating loop
- Define mission outcome and constraints.
- Survey market and technology readiness.
- Draft outcome-based requirements with evaluation evidence.
- Run transparent competition or challenge.
- Pilot with safety, privacy, performance gates.
- Scale strong vendors, terminate weak pilots.
- Feed lessons into standards and budgets.
Human accountability boundary
Strategic prioritization, public legitimacy, national-security judgment, scarce-resource allocation, export-control and safety decisions, and final signoff on irreversible commitments remain human-accountable. AI personnel and robots accelerate the work up to that line.
How to use this skill
- Read the mission and the operating systems it composes.
- Pull the specific sector and role skills you need from those OSs.
- Run the operating loop, coordinating across sectors at the seams.
- Apply the command & cadence model (
00-framework/) and stop at the accountability boundary.
Adapting to any nation (context modifiers)
Whether a nation pursues this mission at all — and how (sovereign build, ally-and-buy, or import) — depends heavily on scale, income, resource endowment, and geopolitics. Re-read through:
- Scale (city-state → federation): whether this role is unified or layered across local/regional/national tiers.
- State capacity (fragile → high-capacity): whether the owning institution exists and can be held to account, or the job is met by markets, households, NGOs, or donors.
- Income level (low → high): affordability of automation and the balance of subsistence vs. wage work.
- Formality (informal → formal): whether the people and assets this role acts on appear in any registry at all.
- Resource & geography: which hazards and dependencies dominate (water-scarce, flood-prone, landlocked, trade-dependent).
- Political system & legitimacy: where the human-accountability boundary actually binds and who may hold power to account.
