TAMPA, FL -- U.S. Special Operations Command plans to roll out a new other transaction authority consortium next month to rapidly execute prototyping contracts and accelerate the acquisition process. SOCOM plans to an award an agreement sometime in mid-June to a manager for the consortium, Col. Clarence Burton Jr, the command’s director of procurement told attendees today at the SOF Week conference. Burton described the consortium as having a five-year period of performance with a ceiling of $500 million. Even...