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Strategic industries

Health, food, and the workforce that sustains them.

Life sciences, food systems, medical production, and workforce capacity are foundations of a resilient economy. We develop projects that strengthen domestic capability across all four.

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Why it matters

Resilience runs through health, food, and skills.

The pandemic exposed how much of American health and food security depends on concentrated, often foreign, supply. Medical products, active pharmaceutical ingredients, and food systems are strategic capacity, not commodities to be left to chance.

We develop projects across life sciences, food systems, and medical production, and treat workforce and community capacity as part of every one — because none of it works without the people to run it.

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By the numbers

Feeding the country — and importing its medicine.

American agriculture is a half-trillion-dollar strength; pharmaceutical production is a dependence.

U.S. agricultural exportsBillions of dollars

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, retrieved via FRED (series B181RC1A027NBEA).

$543B

U.S. value of agricultural products sold in 2022.

USDA NASS, 2022

+680K

Health-care and social-assistance jobs added in the year to March 2026 (+2.9%).

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

72%

Active-pharmaceutical-ingredient facilities serving the U.S. that are located overseas.

U.S. FDA (2019)

What the land produces

Grown and raised, in balance.

U.S. farm sales split almost evenly between crops and livestock — a breadth few major producers match.

  • Crops$278B
  • Livestock & products$265B
Source: USDA NASS, 2022 Census of Agriculture.
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Common questions

About health & agriculture.

Workforce and community capacity run through every sector we work in. A project that cannot be staffed cannot be delivered, so skills development is treated as part of the project, not an afterthought.

The pandemic exposed how much of American health and food security depends on concentrated, often foreign, supply. Medical products, active pharmaceutical ingredients, and food systems are strategic capacity, not commodities to be left to chance.

They are the core substances medicines are made from, and much of their production sits overseas. Rebuilding domestic and allied capacity for them is central to securing the medical supply chain.

Projects across life sciences, food systems, and medical production — from research and manufacturing capacity to the supply chains that keep essential health and food products available.

Both are foundations of a resilient economy that proved fragile when supply concentrated in few hands. Food systems are developed with the same strategic view as medical production.

A project that cannot be staffed cannot be delivered, so skills development runs through every sector rather than sitting beside it. Workforce and community capacity are treated as part of the project, not an afterthought.

Life-sciences and medical firms, food and agricultural producers, research and workforce institutions, states and regions, and sponsors — coordinated because these supply chains reach across many actors.

With a life-sciences, food-system, medical-production, or workforce opportunity brought forward for review, then developed toward delivery through defined stages.

Regulatory requirements, facility and supply-chain readiness, and workforce availability. Health and food production carry standards that shape the pace, and development is sequenced around them.

Coordinated development over the project’s life, framed institutionally rather than as a fee, with scope defined together as the opportunity moves through its stages.

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Developing a health, food, or workforce project?

Bring us a life-sciences, food-system, medical-production, or workforce opportunity to develop.

Health, Agriculture & Workforce — Applied America