Ayessa Maureen Maez

Ayessa Maureen Maez serves as a key procurement professional within the FA8770 Aflcmc Gbk, a critical unit of the Department of the Air Force responsible for sustaining and modernizing mission-critical command, control, and decision-support systems. She manages acquisitions for secure, scalable software solutions that enhance real-time situational awareness, logistics coordination, and operational planning for air operations. Her portfolio centers on modernizing legacy scheduling, monitoring, and data management platforms, ensuring interoperability across tactical and strategic air operations. Maez handles complex IT and aerospace systems acquisitions, often requiring compliance with DoD cybersecurity standards and cloud-native architecture requirements. While specific contractor names are not publicly disclosed, Maez maintains a balanced procurement approach, engaging both large defense contractors and innovative small businesses to deliver cutting-edge software and computing infrastructure. Her working relationships emphasize performance-based contracting, agile development methodologies, and systems integration services tailored to mission-critical air operations environments. She prioritizes vendors with proven expertise in secure data processing, real-time analytics, and aerospace-grade computing platforms. Maez demonstrates a strong commitment to socioeconomic contracting, with equal weighting between open competitions and Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5. Her procurement strategy consistently supports small business participation, fostering opportunities for firms certified under standard small business programs without preference for specific socioeconomic categories like 8(a) or HUBZone. This balanced approach ensures competitive innovation while expanding the supplier base for mission-critical capabilities. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 336413 for other aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment and NAICS 518210 for computing infrastructure and data processing services. She procures embedded systems, secure cloud-hosted applications, data ingestion pipelines, and mission planning software that integrate with airborne and ground-based command systems. Her technical expertise spans DoD IT modernization, zero-trust architecture, and aerospace data interoperability standards, making her a vital link in the Air Force’s digital transformation of operational command systems.