Abigail Atkinson

Abigail Atkinson serves as a key procurement lead within the National Continuity SECTION (CON50) of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, responsible for acquiring critical infrastructure and technical services that sustain national communications resilience during emergencies. She manages the full lifecycle of contracts for repair, maintenance, and remediation services essential to hardened communication systems and emergency response infrastructure. Her acquisitions prioritize operational continuity, cybersecurity resilience, and redundant system integrity, ensuring federal assets remain functional under degraded conditions. Atkinson’s portfolio centers on mission-critical technical services that support the agency’s mandate to preserve essential functions during catastrophic events. Atkinson collaborates with a network of specialized small businesses certified under socioeconomic programs, fostering partnerships with firms possessing niche expertise in industrial equipment maintenance and environmental remediation. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages vendors with proven capabilities in securing and restoring analog and digital communication hardware, field-deployable infrastructure, and hazardous material mitigation systems. Her contracting approach emphasizes agility, technical specificity, and performance-based outcomes, cultivating long-term vendor relationships grounded in compliance, reliability, and rapid response readiness. Atkinson maintains a 100% small business set-aside preference across all procurements, fully aligning with FAR 19.5 guidelines. Her contracting patterns reflect a deliberate and sustained commitment to empowering small businesses, particularly those certified as 8(a), HUBZone, or service-disabled veteran-owned enterprises. She actively sources from firms with demonstrated capacity in mission-critical technical domains, ensuring socioeconomic goals are met without compromising operational readiness or technical standards. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 811310 for commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance, and NAICS 562910 for remediation services. She acquires services involving the restoration of hardened communication nodes, emergency power systems, physical infrastructure repair, and environmental cleanup following incident response. Her technical expertise centers on field-deployable systems, non-electronic mechanical resilience, and contingency-based remediation—ensuring continuity of operations through robust, non-digital fail-safes and industrial-grade maintenance protocols.