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, and 2020 showed how thin each had worn. We develop projects that rebuild domestic capability across all four, and treat workforce as part of every one.
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.
By the numbers
Feeding the country — and importing its medicine.
American agriculture is a half-trillion-dollar strength; pharmaceutical production is a dependence.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, retrieved via FRED (series B181RC1A027NBEA).
Health-care and social-assistance jobs added in the year to March 2026 (+2.9%).
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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
Common questions
A project that cannot be staffed cannot be delivered.
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.
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.
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