Center for Government Contracting Event Recap

Videorecording of the Symposium Introduction and Keynote Address

This is not another webinar about other transaction authorities but a discussion of the history and origin of consortia, the role of consortium management firms, the growth of consortia in recent years, to what extent the consortia model can enable collaboration, accelerate acquisition, promote innovation, and expand the defense industrial base, the costs and risks associated with consortia, and recommendations for the way forward.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize many commercial industries as well as defense. It is important, however, to examine the reality of AI in a use case that demonstrates the capability of the technology as well as the readiness of a DoD user to adopt it for a purpose that impacts military readiness.

William Roberts, Acquisitions Chief, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, U.S. Department of Defense shares insights on the use of artificial intelligence.

Panel 2 focuses on acquisition and use of artificial intelligence from a government perspective.

Panel 1 focuses on acquisition and use of artificial intelligence from a government contracting perspective.

Symposium introduction.

Building on the Center report, Acquisition Next: A Playbook to Break the Industrial Age Paradigm, this conversation examines successful contracting methods for software-intensive programs.

In the first of a two-part series, this Center webinar focuses on three Program-Level Plays in the Acquisition Next Playbook: Adaptive Requirements, Continuous Market Research, and Master the Baseline.

In this recorded webinar from February 23, 2022, speakers discuss the past, present, and future of the SBIR program.