either, this has been disclosed to the United Nations
Procurement Division in writing.23
Finally, although the U.S. shows the greatest political and financial potential to move SETM in UN PKO forward, two other
top ten contributors, France and Germany, have recently developed-through a public private partnership-a solar cell almost
twice as efficient as the SunPower’s® 24 percent efficient cell on
the market. The French company Soitech®24 and the German
research institute Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft created a prototype
for a solar cell with a world record 46 percent efficiency,25
thereby almost doubling its efficiency rating of the SunPower®
solar cell. For now, much doubt remains about whether the 46
percent efficient cell is ready for deployment, but the scale of the
SunPower® cell, which is on the market, shows its availability as
deployable.
Major UN financial and troop contributors’ motivations and
influence on world decisions about SETM application through
UN PKO start with the UN Committee on Contributions.26
That pay to play system very clearly establishes egalitarian
standards for monetary influence on decisions made in the UN.
No individual member nation can assert more influence on the
outcome of any joint decision than another based on amounts
contributed, which are a proportionate amount in comparison
with each country’s gross national product.
UN DPKO is under the immediate control of the Secretary
General to ensure most direct adherence to the UN mandate.
Because the leading UN PKO troop contributors have been
from LDCs since the original UN PKO in 1948, many leaders,
under guidance of the UN DPKO, practice reducing tensions as
an intuitive part of their geo-political positions. The U.S. Army
is in a great position to train those LDCs’ militaries how to use
U.S. SETM as a means to prepare them to bid for command positions in UN PKOs. Geopolitically, this is a great plan for the
U.S. Army because it will not be over-exerting itself in proportion to its large financial contributions or its comparatively large
population. Also placated would be those LDCs’ citizenry, who
often place blame for many of the world’s conflicts squarely on
the shoulders of the U.S. for a perceived lack of sharing resources or providing the means by which acquisition of those resources may take place by LDCs.
UN acquisition policy for positioning SETM in UN
PKO
UN DPKO acquisition framework is the Contingency Owned
Equipment (COE) policy.27 UN COE policy was recently
reviewed by the UN Office of Internal Oversights’ Internal
Audit Division’s, Audit Report 2013/030 that rated COE
program implementation as Partially Satisfactory.28 Referencing
the report’s findings could be an astute window of opportunity
to incorporate new policy language taking SETM into con-
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