MN4313 Innovative Contract Design
This course is the study of the Department of Defense’s non-Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) contracting policies, processes, and practices. The primary focus is on structuring innovative contract agreements to acquire emerging technologies for the Department of Defense. The topics covered include Other Transactions, Procurement for Experiments, and R&D Agreements such as Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA), Partnership Intermediary Agreements (PIA), Technology Investment Agreements (TIA). In addition, the use of challenge-based acquisitions, incentive prizes, modular contracting, parallel contracts, staged contracts and other innovative contracting approaches will be discussed.
Lecture Hours
3
Lab Hours
0