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GAO: Pentagon Has Tripled Use Of OTA Agreements Over The Last Three Years

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, November 27th, 2019

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GAO: Pentagon Has Tripled Use Of OTA Agreements Over The Last Three Years

Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

The Pentagon has tripled its use of Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreements over the last three years to bring in more non-traditional partners to work on emerging technologies and prototyping, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. GAO found DoD increased its amount obligated toward prototype OTA deals from $1.4 billion to $3.7 billion from FY '16 to FY '18, with nearly 90 percent of OTA actions executed with non-traditional partners. Congress in 2015 granted DoD the…

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