Leverage theConsortium.
Traditional Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) processes are often too slow to capture the fast-moving innovation essential to support the DoW agencies and capability developers.
The DoW Drone OTA Consortium offers a streamlined, flexible vehicle designed specifically to bypass bureaucratic friction, enabling you to discover, prototype, and field next-generation technologies at the speed of the modern threat landscape.
What the Consortium gives a program office
Speed to Award
Rapid Acquisition Cycle
Drastically reduce procurement timelines. Move from a whitepaper capability pitch to a funded, active prototype project in a fraction of the time required by standard FAR-based contracts.
Access to Non-Traditional
Expanded Industrial Base
Stop relying solely on the same legacy primes. Gain direct access to a pre-vetted ecosystem of venture-backed startups, tech leaders, and elite research labs that traditionally avoid government contracting.
Flexible Scoping
Collaborative Problem Solving
Instead of issuing rigid, decades-old requirements, issue "Statements of Need." This allows industry to propose cutting-edge, unexpected solutions to your most complex operational problems.
Path to Scale
Seamless Production Transition
Successful prototypes developed through the Consortium feature a built-in, non-competitive pathway to follow-on production contracts, ensuring successful tech actually reaches the warfighter.
Risk Mitigation
Milestone-Based Execution
Structure projects with fixed-price, milestone-driven payments. This ensures the Government only pays for successful capability demonstrations, minimizing financial risk while driving accountability.
Pre-approved drafting templates
We eliminate the formatting and administrative headache of launching new solicitations. DoW program offices have access to a suite of pre-structured, pre-approved drafting templates:
Request For Whitepapers/Solutions
Frame your tactical challenges as operational goals rather than restrictive technical specifications.
Solicitation Templates
Ready-to-customize templates that drastically reduce the time to draft solicitations.
Evaluation & Scoring Rubrics
Pre-built frameworks to assess incoming prototypes rapidly and objectively.
Start with the operational problem
Describe the tactical challenge as an operational goal and the Consortium will help frame it as a Statement of Need.
Instead of issuing rigid, decades-old requirements, issue “Statements of Need.”
This allows industry to propose cutting-edge, unexpected solutions to your most complex operational problems — and moves a whitepaper capability pitch to a funded, active prototype project in a fraction of the time required by standard FAR-based contracts.
Contact the Consortium
Reach out with a short description of the capability gap, the operational context, and the timeline you are working against.
DMConsortium@army.mil