Small satellite acquisition: Contracting for success
Millennium Space Systems' Vice President of Contracts Joshua Madrigal shares how contracting plays a critical role in acquisition.
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Change how OTAs are used to make them an essential tool against China
DoD needs to lower the barriers to larger defense market opportunities that go beyond R&D, extending into the full lifecycle of defense systems, argues Christopher Zember.
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Cybersecurity skills don’t come from a manual, but from practical hands-on training
Cybersecurity skills must evolve in near-real time as Zero Day threats continue and AI provides new challenges.
Is It Time For OTAs To Go Mainstream?
Stan Soloway and Jason Knudson dig into whether Other Transaction Authorities actually work, and whether they should become a more common tool for the DoD.
Space Force Awards NSTXL Space Consortium Contract
The Space & Missile Systems Center has reaffirmed its choice of NSTXL to manage the public-private Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC), rejecting allegations by The Washington Post.
Did The Space Force Just Ruin OTAs For Everyone?
Other Transaction Authority awards have soared 712 percent since 2015, helping jumpstart R&D, including on COVID vaccines. But now the Space Force’s OTAs have been derailed by a court case against contractor NSTXL – and the whole OTA system is under fire.
OTAs Soar & Army Leads The Way: CSIS Report
Army Contracting Command still accounts for 45 percent of all DoD Other Transaction Authority obligations, but the Air Force and, belatedly, the Navy are starting to catch up.
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JADC2 gets its first C2 gateway authorized to update itself
The initial command and control gateway to earn a continuous Authority to Operate is changing multi-domain operations.
Army Tripled OTA Prototyping To $4.8B In Just 3 Years: GAO
Other Transaction Authority prototyping tripled from 2017's $1.6 billion, while other non-traditional vehicles, like research grants, declined from $730 million to $590 million.
COVID Can’t Stop A Busy Summer For Army FVL
Despite disruptions worldwide, Future Vertical Lift flight tests, virtual industry days, and design reviews are all moving ahead on schedule or mere weeks behind.
FVL: The Army’s 10-Year Plan For FARA Scout
The Army’s urgently developing new air-launched drones, long-range missiles, and electronic architecture to go on the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft that Bell and Sikorsky are vying to build.
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Raytheon: Robotized Factory Speeds Up Army LTAMDS Radar
The company is using extensive automation and a new generation of high-efficiency gallium nitride materials to accelerate development of the Lower-Tier Air & Missile Defense Sensor, LTAMDS.
Michigan: Arsenal of Democracy for dangerous times
Michigan’s defense ecosystem and expertise makes it a special asset for production.
Pentagon Briefs Industry On 5G Experiments
Four bases around the country will pioneer military use of the new high-speed communications network technology.
Army Reboots OMFV, 2026 Deadline Dropped
After rejecting prototype vehicles built at industry’s expense, the Army is starting over with a competition for low-cost ‘digital prototypes.’ When will they physically build something? TBD.
Air Force Takes First Step Toward Commercial Internet Services
The experiment is expected to eventually lead to the wholesale replacement of the Air Force’s slow, cumbersome and ineffectual network with a modern, commercially procured one with improved speed, security and functionality.
Pentagon Prototypes 5G With Innovation On-Ramp
If you want to prototype 5G networks on a military base, you need to join the National Spectrum Consortium first. That’s an increasingly common model.