A congressional audit of more than $24 billion contracted by the Defense Department using other transaction authorities (OTA) found the Pentagon does not have a systematic approach for tracking which consortia receive awards, limiting the ability of contracting personnel to make informed decisions on how and whether to use consortia-based OTAs. The Government Accountability Office found that between 2019 and 2021 the Defense Department awarded more than $24 billion using OTAs, including $5 billion for armaments and $2.6 billion for...