Accomplishing DARPA’s mission of creating and preventing strategic surprise is as much a business challenge as it is a technology challenge.In this episode, team members from DARPA’s Contracts Management Office – Office Director Effie Fragogiannis and Deputy Director Catherine Stevens, along with Senior Advisor Scott Ulrey – explore what it takes to innovate contracting processes and mechanisms to enable the development of breakthrough technologies at the speed of relevance.From DARPA’s pioneering work with Other Transactions, to fast-pitch proposals, to the exploration of previously unrealized authorities, hear how the agency is breaking down the barriers of government contracting, providing companies a clearer path to the national security mission.Links:Acquisition Innovation (https://acquisitioninnovation.darpa.mil/) Collaborative Disruption at DoD – Kathleen Hicks – American Dynamism Summit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN75v_jiLWA)Acquisition Innovation: From Other Transactions to Fast-Pitch Proposals (https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2024-04-22)Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Other Transactions Guide (https://www.acq.osd.mil/asda/dpc/cp/policy/docs/guidebook/TAB%20A1%20-%20DoD%20OT%20Guide%20JUL%202023_final.pdf)DARPAConnect (https://www.darpaconnect.us/home)