
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week said it has created a new “innovation framework” to make it easier for start-up companies and non-traditional government contractors to work with the department and speed the acquisition of potential solutions.The innovation framework will use a flexible industry engagement mechanism called an Other Transaction Solicitation (OTS) “to promote competition among non-traditional government contractors, with a streamlined approach to address specific needs to the Homeland Security,” DHS says in a Dec. 9 noticed…