NSTXL transforms government innovation efforts with commercial best practices, tools, and expertise that decrease costs, compress timelines, and improve outcomes. The organization builds customized strategies and market approaches for the nation's leading government offices, pushing the boundaries of traditional government contracting to deliver the best solutions without wasting time or money. NSTXL brings together the smartest people from across industry and government to solve the toughest challenges, driven by a shared passion to quickly deliver critical technologies to the end-user.
As an agile acquisition platform, NSTXL harvests innovative technology from the commercial and non-defense marketplace, creating opportunities for the military, businesses, universities, and laboratories to collaborate on groundbreaking projects. The organization manages multiple Other Transaction Authority (OTA) consortia, including S²MARTS and SpEC, connecting government requirements with innovative private-sector solutions. With a focus on emerging technologies like microelectronics, hypersonics, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and space systems, NSTXL has awarded over $5.5 billion in contracts and maintains a network of more than 900 member organizations. Their average submission-to-award timeline is just over 100 days compared to 12-24 months with traditional defense contracting.