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Pentagon agency expands use of cyber contracting method to other data operations

By Justin Doubleday / May 21, 2019

The Defense Information Systems Agency's newly established Emerging Technology Directorate is using “other transaction agreements” -- a streamlined contracting process that has been used for cybersecurity services -- to pursue several programs, including a new assured identity capability for personnel using Defense Department networks.

The new organization is about six months old, Maj. Nikolaus Ziegler, military deputy at the directorate, said on May 14 during AFCEA's TechNet Cyber conference in Baltimore.

"The big thing is to be agile, flat and...


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