TWOSENSE.AI announced a $2.42 million OTA contract to work with the Defense Information Systems Agency on "invisible continuous multi-factor authentication" for the military.

Agencies spent $64.7 billion on IT contracts last year, up 9.5 percent from fiscal 2017.

To meet the technology demands of the era of great power competition, the DoD will have to change the way it buys and sustains its arsenal.

OTAs are the cool new authority in procurement circles, but acquisition officials say they run the risk of being dramatically overused.

AT&T won the first of the two awards worth $87.4 million through an other transaction agreement (OTA). Microsoft received the second, another OTA worth $34.4 million.

The OTA will offer speed to the procurement of a new background investigations process.