Army acquisition official: 'We have to protect' OTAs

By Ashley Tressel / July 19, 2018 at 4:11 PM
The Army is reviewing how it uses other transaction agreements to accelerate the acquisition process, while lawmakers worried about transparency attempt to tighten oversight of the process. Lt. Gen. Paul Ostrowski, military deputy to the Army acquisition executive, said at an Association of the United States Army event July 18 the Defense Department as a whole must be more careful not to overstep its bounds with OTAs. "We have to protect this tool," Ostrowski said. "This is a gift...

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