Show Notes
Accomplishing DARPA’s mission of creating and preventing strategic surprise is as much a business challenge as it is a technology challenge.
In this episode, team members from DARPA’s Contracts Management Office – Office Director Effie Fragogiannis and Deputy Director Catherine Stevens, along with Senior Advisor Scott Ulrey – explore what it takes to innovate contracting processes and mechanisms to enable the development of breakthrough technologies at the speed of relevance.
From DARPA’s pioneering work with Other Transactions, to fast-pitch proposals, to the exploration of previously unrealized authorities, hear how the agency is breaking down the barriers of government contracting, providing companies a clearer path to the national security mission.
Links: Acquisition Innovation
Collaborative Disruption at DoD – Kathleen Hicks – American Dynamism Summit
Acquisition Innovation: From Other Transactions to Fast-Pitch Proposals
Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Other Transactions Guide
DARPAConnect
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