Amber Bruce

Amber Bruce serves as a key procurement professional within DLA Disposition Services Headquarters, supporting the Department of Defense’s mission to responsibly manage and dispose of excess, surplus, and unwanted military property. In this role, she oversees the acquisition of services and materials essential to the lawful, environmentally sound, and economically efficient recovery, recycling, and redistribution of reusable military assets—particularly metallic and non-metallic scrap generated from demilitarization operations. Her procurement activities center on the logistical and operational frameworks required to facilitate the movement, processing, and resale of recovered materials, ensuring compliance with federal environmental and disposal regulations. Bruce maintains primary contracting relationships with specialized recyclable material wholesalers, notably KUWAIT ULTRA GENERAL CONTRACTING COMPANY and HUB SCRAP METALS, LLC. These partnerships reflect a focus on vendors with established infrastructure for handling large-scale scrap metal and industrial waste streams, including sorting, processing, and transporting materials to certified recycling facilities. Her working relationships are characterized by long-term, performance-based contracts that emphasize operational reliability, regulatory compliance, and supply chain transparency. Her procurement portfolio is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of acquisitions conducted under full and open competition, indicating a preference for market-driven selection based on technical capability and operational efficiency rather than socioeconomic preferences. This approach prioritizes maximizing value and throughput in high-volume, commodity-driven disposal operations. Bruce’s expertise is narrowly focused on NAICS 423930—Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers—reflecting her specialization in the wholesale distribution of scrap metals and industrial byproducts. She procures services related to material collection, processing, and resale, ensuring alignment with DoD’s circular economy goals and environmental stewardship mandates. Her domain expertise lies in the intersection of defense logistics, waste stream management, and industrial recycling markets.