DISA's new Emerging Technology Directorate leveraging OTAs

By Justin Doubleday / May 14, 2019 at 4:57 PM
The Defense Information Systems Agency's newly established Emerging Technology Directorate is using other transaction agreements 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 today during AFCEA's TechNet Cyber conference in Baltimore, MD. "The big thing is to be agile, flat and fast," he said, adding that the directorate aims to go from solicitation to prototyping...

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