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4 Better Experimentation in the Air Force: Barriers and Levers
Pages 15-19

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... Executive Vice President, Dayton Aerospace, Former Commander Air Force Life Cycle Management Center With the standup of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) in 2012, nearly all non-space acquisition and product support responsibilities within the Air Force were consolidated into a single organization.
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... PERSPECTIVE ON ACQUISITION BARRIERS TO INNOVATION AND EXPERIMENTATION Camron Gorguinpour Director of Transformational Innovation to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisitions (SAF/AQ)   The job of the Transformational Innovation office for the Air Force (transform.af.mil)
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... The challenge is to engage the "non-traditional defense contractors" who do not normally do business with DoD because it is too difficult -- long timelines to get to funding, lengthy application process to compete for business, restrictive intellectual property rules, security rules, auditing, and international trade restrictions. One solution we are experimenting with is the Other Transaction Authority (OTA)
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... The Air Force Research Laboratory has now created its own AF OT consortium vehicle. There are nuances to be worked through, but we at least have a contract vehicle with which to work.
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... There are other similar AF vehicles: Combat Air Operations Center-Experimental, Information Sharing Analysis Center at Warner-Robbins Air Logistics Center, and the Cyber Innovation Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, etc. That said, some people prefer more traditional yet efficient acquisition approaches (e.g., multi-award ID/IQs [Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity]
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