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Stan Soloway: Know How to Fully Leverage OTAs & Other Tools & Tech
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Host Tim Templeton talks with Stan Soloway, former DoD Acquisition Official and CEO of the Professional Services Council. They discuss the real possibilities of bringing OTAs into daily contracting use, leveraging CSOs as another powerful yet underused strategy, and embracing corporate training models to educate the next waves of government employees.
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Chapters
1. Stan Soloway: Know How to Fully Leverage OTAs & Other Tools & Tech (00:00:00)
2. OTAs work well in emergencies. Why not day-to-day? (00:03:18)
3. Less about a specific tool & more about learnings gained from the OTA experience (00:04:49)
4. What is holding us back from using OTAs more effectively? (00:05:45)
5. CSOs are another underused tool. Why? (00:06:30)
6. Caution: We still have issues transitioning OTAs to production (00:09:41)
7. Authority to go full-production with OTAs has been granted (00:10:16)
8. The DAU is developing curriculum around alternative acquisition tools (00:11:07)
9. The FAR is not the foundation for federal procurement (00:11:31)
10. Training a young workforce of several hundred thousand (00:17:17)
11. Almost everything we're discussing will be settled by tech (00:18:11)
12. Most innovative tech is coming out of the commercial space (00:18:52)
13. Model how corporate universities train people (00:20:39)
14. Flex Corp. has a process the govt. can learn from (00:24:35)
15. Flex built a model we can emulate (00:27:06)
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