Other Transaction Authority
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OFPP and ACT-IAC partnered to collect and describe acquisition innovations as a way to reduce the friction of acquisition through a new Periodic Table of Acquisition Elements.
November 04, 2019 -
Deals made under other transaction authority, as opposed to regular procurement contracts, help the government buy innovation and prototypes.
September 19, 2019 -
Gary Gray, William Riski and George Schleh of Acquisition Systems Associates, make the case for why DoD should be more aggressive in their use of middle tier acquisition approaches.
July 30, 2019 -
Larry Allen, of Allen Federal Business Partners, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain how.
June 24, 2019 -
Congress is watching while contractors are wary. So just how big is other transaction authority in the Defense Department?
June 10, 2019 -
Contractors might be wary but non-traditional defense acquisition is here to stay.
June 03, 2019 -
Tim Greeff, founder and CEO of National Security Technology Accelerator, explains why DoD should use more other transaction authority agreements to develop modern weapons.
May 31, 2019 -
This is the third effort between the Navy’s Surface Warfare Center and the National Security Technology Accelerator.
April 12, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Federal Services Impasses Panel sides mostly with management in a disputed between labor groups and the Health and Human Services Department.
April 08, 2019 -
Air Force Lt. Col. Sam Kidd, general counsel and a professional staff member of the Section 809 panel, said buying commercial products and services has become too cumbersome and slow for the Pentagon.
March 28, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, up to $1 billion from DoD is now available to help support the Homeland Security Department's drug enforcement efforts at the southern border.
March 26, 2019 -
Several federal agencies, including the Defense Department and the armed services, have rediscovered an old but potent way of getting rapid acquisitions done. Alex Rossino at Deltek discussed the implications.
March 15, 2019 -
The Army, over the next two years, plans to fundamentally reshape the way it delivers IT on its bases with an "as-a-service" delivery model.
March 07, 2019 -
The Navy wants vendors to prototype an entirely new network architecture that would give its users more direct pathways to the cloud services.
March 05, 2019 -
Lynn Dugle, the CEO, chairman and president of Engility, said the security clearance backlog is limiting their ability to bid on contracts and creating a challenge for all of industry
February 22, 2019