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Acquisition experts help inform series on other transaction authorities – FederalNewsRadio.com

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On this week’s On DoD, we go a bit deeper into Federal News Radio’s series, Danger at High Speed: OTAs in Action. This edition of the program features some of the extended interviews Scott Maucione conducted with acquisition experts as part of the reporting process for his two-part series on the Defense Department’s use of acquisition authorities.

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DoD expected to release third draft of JEDI cloud RFP this week – FederalNewsRadio.com

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The Defense Department is calling a mulligan with its cloud contract known as JEDI, and is expected to release a new draft request for proposals this week, maybe as early as Thursday.

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Peering into the black box of OTA awards – FederalNewsRadio.com

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The waters surrounding the Defense Department’s new favorite way to buy and develop systems are murky.

In the past three years, DoD awarded nearly $21 billion in Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreements — using the approach to fund prototypes and production for night vision goggles, parachutes that can carry more weight, miniature satellites and a host of other ideas.

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‘Fourth estate’ agencies safe from cuts for now as Congress rolls out its final version of the 2019 NDAA – FederalNewsRadio.com

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The Defense Department’s extra appendages aren’t being lopped off by Congress just yet.

The House and Senate agreed to a singular version of the 2019 defense authorization bill Monday and the proposed legislation keeps the Pentagon’s “fourth estate” intact.

The fourth estate refers to 28 agencies that are not part of a military service and employs 200,000 civilian personnel and nearly 600,000 contractors.

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Most agencies are still not fulfilling spending data requirements – FederalNewsRadio.com

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In today’s Federal Newscast, the Government Accountability Office said only 15 out of 53 agencies met DATA Act requirements for complete, timely and accurate spending data reports.

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Navy makes final preparations to release RFPs for multibillion-dollar NGEN

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Navy officials are moving into the final stretch of preparations to release a pair of contracts that will divide and replace its $3.5 billion Next Generation Enterprise Services (NGEN) contract later this year.

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Changes coming to professional services thanks to contract management

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Changes are coming in the way the General Services Administration purchases services. In April the Office of Federal Procurement Policy released a new strategy to use category management to reduce multiple award contracts, and contractors will begin seeing the results soon.

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How consultants help break the government inefficiency myth – FederalNewsRadio.com

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If you’re an entrepreneur in the D.C. region, you likely have many friends who work as technology consultants to the federal government. It’s one of largest industries in our region, but how many people actually know what these consultants do on a daily basis? Robert McNamara, managing director at PwC PS, hopes to clear up some confusion. PricewaterhouseCooper’s Public Sector, now called Guidehouse, recently spun out of PwC as its own company, giving McNamara the chance to start from scratch, putting together a new team and devising new strategies for making the government more helpful and efficient.

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As OTAs grow, prime contractors are reaping the benefits – FederalNewsRadio.com

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For the Department of Defense, what was once an obscure acquisition approach has now turned into a methodology to fund research, prototyping, and in some cases, the production of systems to the tune of tens of billions of dollars.

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What White House’s proposed government reorg looks like for contractors?

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If any of the Trump administration’s plans for reorganizing actually come through, they could have a big impact on contracts held by merged agencies or functions. For more on this and a few other fiscal 2019 contracting matters, Rob Levinson, senior analyst at Bloomberg Government, spoke with Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

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