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Geurts: Navy Needs To Use More OTAs, Rapid Acquisition

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Geurts: Navy Needs To Use More OTAs, Rapid Acquisition
James Geurts, Performing the Duties of Under Secretary of the Navy. Formerly he served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition (ASN-RDA from December 2017-January 20, 2020. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The Navy’s top acquisition official on Tuesday said the service needs to continue using more fast acquisition tools to better pivot to new threats.He singled out other transaction authorities (OTAs): acquisition instruments other than contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements that aim to provide more streamlined ways to work on prototype projects and then turn those successes into follow-on production.OTAs are not subject to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) contract rules and its supplements.The Navy has “not deployed them…

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