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June 28, 2018 By AMK

Hacking acquisition: How the federal government uses OTA to buy tech fast

For decades, one of the Pentagon’s biggest procurement problems has been rapidly purchasing modern and emerging technologies.

Through traditional contracting processes under the Federal Acquisition Regulation, procurements could sometimes run years, and large tech acquisitions across defense and military agencies were among the most likely to fail across government.

In recent years, however, the Pentagon has explored new means by which to procure technology: other transaction authorities.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2018/06/hacking-acquisition/149046/

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Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition reform, DoD, FAR, OTA, other transaction authorities, Pentagon, procurement reform, prototyping

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