Other Transaction Agreement

Pentagon has huge blind spots in its spending on OTAs

A careful examination of DoD’s use of consortiums for other transaction agreements found the Pentagon doesn’t have a clear picture of its billions in OTA…

On DoD

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Defense Innovation Unit out to prove AI, automation can keep up with the speed of cyber

Ask the CIO

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Pentagon R&D spending still lags behind an otherwise healthy Defense budget

Defense

Toni Townes-Whitley is the president, U.S. Regulated Industries at Microsoft.

Why one vendor thinks agencies are flocking to OTAs

Contracts/Awards

Uniformed and civilian cyber and military intelligence specialists monitor Army networks in the Cyber Mission Unit’s Cyber Operations Center at Fort Gordon, Ga. (Photo by Michael L. Lewis)

Army, DHA take steps to stop managing day-to-day IT operations

Reporter's Notebook

GSA preps 3rd version of STARS small business contract

Federal Newscast

Army issues solicitation to commercialize IT on its installations

On DoD

In this Tuesday, June 18, 2019 photo a sign for the entrance to the National Archives is seen in College Park, Md. A Virginia National Guard sergeant is accused of stealing World War II-era dog tags from the National Archives and Records Administration in Maryland, at least the second theft case involving the research facility. Robert Rumsby, of Fredericksburg, Va., told investigators he took dog tags that belonged to four U.S. airmen killed in plane crashes in 1944, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court last month. (AP Photo/Michael Kunzelman)

Agencies told to phase out paper records by December 2022

Federal Newscast

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DoD contractors shouldn’t fear being ‘first’ to try acquisition alternatives

Larry Allen, of Allen Federal Business Partners, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain how.

Federal Drive

DoD’s use of other transaction agreements increasing each year

Congress is watching while contractors are wary. So just how big is other transaction authority in the Defense Department?

Federal Drive

Government innovation? Weirdness comes in threes

Tom Temin Commentary

Government innovation happens. But do people like it when it does?