Article Out Loud – The Evaluation Gap: A Practitioner’s Guide to AI Procurement

This is an article by Justin Snair, Emma Erwin, and Sarah K. Miller, an Article Out Loud from Domestic Preparedness, June 10, 2026.COVID-19 exposed major preparedness gaps, and AI has evolved as a resource. Yet procurement remains risky: organizations must navigate data security, compliance, workflow, and ethical concerns without a clear way to evaluate vendors. Learn how existing frameworks assess governance and technical risk, but rarely address domain expertise and operational fit, which are factors that often determine whether a tool succeeds or fails.Now to the featured article.