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DoD Creates Ordnance Technology Consortium To Spur Innovation

Pat Host

Thursday, January 21st, 2016

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DoD Creates Ordnance Technology Consortium To Spur Innovation

The Defense Department has created a consortium under Better Buying Power 3.0 to spur innovation in ordnances and better facilitate business with non-traditional suppliers.Jose Gonzalez, deputy director, land warfare and munitions, tactical warfare systems, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L), said Thursday the DoD Ordnance Technology Consortium (DOTC) is facilitated by a legal contract called Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) Section 845. He said as DOTC is a non-Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)-based contractual mechanism,…

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