FY18 NDAA (Pub. L. 115-91) Section 864 — Other transaction authority for certain contracts
Summary
Section 864 of the FY18 National Defense Authorization Act (Pub. L. 115-91), which amended the prototype other-transaction authority at 10 U.S.C. 2371b. It doubles the follow-on and approval dollar thresholds (raising figures from $50M/$250M to $100M/$500M), clarifies that small businesses participating in SBIR/STTR programs count toward the nontraditional-contractor conditions, modifies the cost-sharing requirement, and confirms that a transaction includes all individual prototype subprojects awarded to a consortium of U.S. industry and academic institutions. It is a core statutory building block of the DoD prototype OT framework.