Ashley Kennemer

Ashley Kennemer serves as a key procurement professional within the W6QK Acc-rsa office of the Department of the Army, responsible for managing complex acquisitions that sustain and modernize the Army’s aerial and missile defense systems. She oversees the acquisition of mission-critical aerospace components and technical support services essential to platforms such as the UH-60 Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache helicopters, with a focus on avionics, propulsion subsystems, and sensor integration. Her work directly supports the Army’s strategic imperative to enhance operational readiness through advanced aerospace technology, ensuring timely delivery of reliable, high-performance systems under strict defense standards. Kennemer engages with a broad spectrum of defense contractors specializing in aerospace manufacturing and mission support services, cultivating long-term partnerships with Tier 1 systems integrators and niche suppliers of specialized components. She works closely with vendors possessing AS9100 and ITAR certifications, ensuring compliance with stringent defense quality and security protocols. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, technical validation, and supply chain resilience, often requiring multi-phase prototyping and sustainment contracts to meet evolving battlefield requirements. Kennemer’s procurement portfolio reflects a strict preference for open competition, with 100% of acquisitions conducted without set-aside designations. This reflects a mission-driven focus on technical capability and schedule certainty over socioeconomic categorization, prioritizing performance and readiness over socioeconomic criteria. While small business participation is not formally incentivized through set-asides, she maintains transparency and accessibility in solicitation processes to encourage broad vendor engagement. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 336413 for other aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment, and NAICS 561990 for all other support services. She specializes in procuring flight-critical hardware, maintenance kits, diagnostic tools, and technical training services essential to sustaining operational aerospace platforms. Her domain expertise spans electro-optical systems, flight control actuators, and embedded mission computing, making her a critical liaison between engineering requirements and contract execution in the Army’s modernization pipeline.