OTAs

(Other Transaction Authorities)

PHOTO: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Mettle Ops is a member of seven OTAs (Other Transaction Authorities). Each OTA specializes in different capabilities and awards federally funded projects to members with the best solution for the government. Below is a summary of each of the OTAs Mettle Ops maintains a membership with. If you would like to partner with Mettle Ops based on these capabilities, please contact us.

Guided Missile

Target Detection/Acquisition/Tracking Sensors
Missile Electronics
Seekers to Defeat Moving Targets and Air Defense Threats
Guidance/Control for Improved Precision and Global Positioning System (GPS)-Denied Precisions
Lethality Mechanisms
Warheads
Fuzes
Payloads
Radar

Datalink and Communication
Materials and Structures
Power Systems
Aerodynamics
Navigation Systems
Modeling and Simulation
Energetics
Component Cyber Security
Propulsion Systems for Increased Range and Decisive Effects
Missile Launchers
Support Equipment

Manufacturing & Enabling / Disruptive Technologies

Innovation Enablers
Additive Manufacturing
High Energy Creation and Storage Systems
Directed Energy
Advanced Materials/Processes
Advanced Manufacturing Techniques
Manufacturing Cyber Security
Modeling and Simulation
Virtual Prototyping
Robotics

Automation
High Temperature Materials
Lightweight & Hybrid Materials
Flexible Electronics
Reclamation/Repair Technologies
Open System Architectures for Enhanced Manufacturing Productivity (Digital Manufacturing and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT))

Aviation

Platforms/Materials/Structures
Power Systems
Engines/Propulsion Systems
Drives/Rotors
Mission Systems
Avionics/Navigation
Sensors Networks Data Link and Communication

Survivability
Sustainability
Autonomy
Manned/Unmanned Teaming (MUMT)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
Component Cyber Security and Aviation Ground Support Equipment/Systems (AGSE)

Offensive and Defensive Cyberspace Operations
Situational Understanding
C4ISR and Targeting
System-of-Systems Architecture
Tactical and Strategic Networks
Enterprise Systems
Software and Hardware Technologies
Artificial Intelligence
Forensics
Analytics

Systems Integration
Electronic Warfare
Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
Information Operations
Intelligence Analysis, Exploitation, and Dissemination
Mobility and Autonomy
Sensors
Modeling and Simulation
Enabling Technologies
Training

Cornerstone will accelerate research, development, prototyping, demonstration, qualification and integration of manufacturing capabilities and capacities into the US Industrial Base and supply chains for these Sector and Requirement Focus Areas:

Aircraft (Area 1)
Radar and Electronics Warfare (Area 2)
Shipbuilding (Area 3)
Ground Vehicles (Area 4)
Soldier Systems (Area 5)
Space (Area 6)
Chemical, Biological, Radiological & Nuclear (CBRN) (Area 7)
Materials Industry (Area 8)
Machine Tools (Area 9)
Cyber for the Industrial Base (Area 10)

Optics (Area 11)
Advanced Technology and Advanced manufacturing (Area 12)
Electronics (Area 13)
Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4) (Area 14)
Munitions and Missiles (Area 15)
Industrial Base & Manufacturing Skills (Area 16)
Private Equity (Area 17)
Other (Area 18)

Automotive Cyber Security
Vehicle Safety Technologies
Vehicle Light Weighting
Autonomous Vehicles and Intelligent Systems

Connected Vehicles
Advanced Energy Storage Technologies
Propulsion Technologies
Active Suspension Technologies

“Ordnance” is the ammunition, armaments, munitions, weapons, systems and related military material such as equipment and components that enables the military to achieve combat and mission effectiveness in all warfare environments: air, land, sea, undersea and space. DOTC to support all the warfare environments including:

Warheads/Lethal Mechanisms
Energetic Materials
Ammunition
Rockets, Missiles and Bombs
Fuzes
Weapon Systems

Demilitarization
Enabling Technologies
Protection and Survivability
Sensors and Sensor Systems
Directed Energy Warfare

DOTC has recognized Mettle Ops in their ability to manufacture both large and small projectiles. Mettle Ops is currently working with Ground Vehicle Systems Center (formally TARDEC) on the following contracts.