So that’s really been something that is close to my heart, is making sure that we have these tools available to us as the world evolves. I joined the Homeland Security ARPA when Homeland Security was first created and was able to forward the idea of other transactions through my work as a professor at DAU for a time.
And I’ve gone to a variety of different agencies. And over my career have been involved ever since in making sure those tools remain active and available to us, but also are used properly. So I was raised basically outside of the FAR in many ways and using these various tools for a variety of different research and development projects. But when I joined ARPA originally back in 1994 was right when other transactions and some of the more innovative tools were really starting to make their way into the Department of Defense. I actually started out as a lawyer in the government, not a contracts person, but have been involved with contracts for over 30 years now. So tell us what you’ve brought here.ĭiane Sidebottom Yes, I’ve had an unusual career in many ways. Tom Temin And I want to start with you because you came here already with a background in, let’s say, nontraditional or non ordinary types of procurements, specifically DARPA, after which all the other RPAs to some degree or modeled. For a look on the inside, Federal Drive with Tom Teminspoke with Diane Sidebottom, ARPA-H Director of Acquisition and Contracts. That’s the case for one of the government’s newer agencies, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, known as ARPA-H.
And you’ve got congressional backing for your novel approach.
Imagine a federal procurement shop where you use every technique, except the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Between the Lines with the Administrative Conference of the United States.
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