About DOTC

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ORDNANCE TECHNOLOGY CONSORTIUM (DOTC)

DOTC is a collaborative partnership between the Department of Defense and the National Warhead and Energetics Consortium. DOTC was commissioned by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition , Technology and Logistics as a DoD initiative. The Enterprise was established by the Under Secretary to facilitate collaborative Government, Industry, and Academic ordnance technology development and prototyping.

Initially in 2000 the NWEC was partnered with the Army’s Warheads and Energetics Technology Center, or WETC, located at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. Shortly after the NWEC/WETC partnership was forged, the NWEC expanded its role and became the industrial/academic component of the newly formed DoD Ordnance Technology Consortium when it was stood up as a purple organization in December 2002.

A key feature of the enterprise is its ability to leverage the capabilities and investments of all of its constituents – Government, Industry and Academia -- to maximize Return on Investment. This is accomplished through its joint planning and project execution process. In operation for the last twelve (12) years, DOTC is available to all Service laboratories and any other Government Agencies to aid in development and prototyping of advanced concept warheads, energetics, fuzes and other ordnance items.

DOTC operates under an “Other Transactions Agreement (OTA)” between the Government and the NWEC. OTA is the term commonly used to refer to the 10 USC 2371 authority to enter into transactions other than contracts, grants or cooperative agreements. The Department of Defense (DoD) currently has temporary authority to award relevant to weapons or weapons systems proposed to be acquired or developed by the DoD. To learn more about OTAs, click here to view an OTA briefing available on the NWEC Members Only website.

If you have any DOTC related questions please contact us at krystina.m.palumbo.civ@mail.mil.

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