Alliyah Richmond

Alliyah Richmond serves as the primary procurement lead for the Asc Commodities Division within the Department of Defense’s Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, where she oversees the acquisition of mission-critical mechanical and electrical components essential to military aviation readiness. Her responsibilities include managing the full lifecycle of contracts for high-reliability fasteners, precision bearings, wiring devices, and specialized electronic components that ensure the structural and electronic integrity of aircraft systems. She plays a central role in aligning procurement strategies with operational requirements, ensuring timely delivery of parts that support maintenance, repair, and overhaul activities across the defense aviation fleet. Richmond engages with a broad base of industrial suppliers specializing in aerospace-grade manufacturing, with consistent collaboration with firms capable of meeting stringent MIL-SPEC and AS9100 standards. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she cultivates relationships with manufacturers possessing proven capabilities in low-volume, high-precision production and rigorous quality control systems. Her contracting approach emphasizes technical compliance, supply chain resilience, and vendor responsiveness to urgent operational demands, often requiring rapid turnaround on critical spare parts. Richmond’s procurement activities reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions issued without set-aside designations. This reflects a strategic focus on maximizing technical capability and supply chain depth rather than socioeconomic categorization, prioritizing performance and reliability over programmatic preferences. While small business participation is not formally incentivized in her portfolio, vendors of all sizes must demonstrate full compliance with defense quality and traceability requirements. Her primary procurement focus centers on NAICS 334419 for other electronic component manufacturing, 335311 for power and specialty transformer production, and 335931 for current-carrying wiring devices, with additional activity in lighting equipment manufacturing. She specializes in sourcing components that support avionics, power distribution, and electrical control systems, demonstrating deep technical fluency in aerospace-grade electronics and electromechanical subsystems critical to flight safety and system durability.