{"id":550393,"date":"2018-11-29T17:29:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T21:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/1701529\/air-force-moves-at-the-speed-of-startups-with-100-contract-awards-in-40-hours\/"},"modified":"2018-11-29T17:29:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T21:29:31","slug":"air-force-moves-at-the-speed-of-startups-with-100-contract-awards-in-40-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=550393","title":{"rendered":"Air Force moves at the speed of startups with 100 contract awards in 40 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio \u2013 Contracting officials and innovators from across the Air<br \/> <br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2018\/Nov\/28\/2002067212\/82\/55\/0\/181119-F-F3456-1001.JPG' alt='Lt. Col. Jorge Manresa, a contracting officer with the Air Force Installation Contracting Agency\u2019s 338th Specialized Contracting Squadron, and AFWERX-Austin Liaison, conducts a briefing for the contracting team at the beginning of their effort to award 50 contracts in 50 hours. The team spent a week from Nov. 5-9 working on the project and ended up awarding more than 100 contracts in 40 hours, significantly reducing the amount of time it takes to award contracts to businesses. (Courtesy photo)' \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio &ndash; Contracting officials and innovators from across the Air<br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2018\/Nov\/28\/2002067212\/82\/55\/0\/181119-F-F3456-1001.JPG\" alt=\"Lt. Col. Jorge Manresa, a contracting officer with the Air Force Installation Contracting Agency&rsquo;s 338th Specialized Contracting Squadron, and AFWERX-Austin Liaison, conducts a briefing for the contracting team at the beginning of their effort to award 50 contracts in 50 hours. The team spent a week from Nov. 5-9 working on the project and ended up awarding more than 100 contracts in 40 hours, significantly reducing the amount of time it takes to award contracts to businesses. (Courtesy photo)\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3186,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550394,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550393\/revisions\/550394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}