Caitlin Harris

Caitlin Harris serves as a Contract Specialist within the FA8823 Sustainment MCPNT SSC/PKL under the Department of the Air Force, where she plays a pivotal role in executing complex acquisitions to sustain and modernize critical aerospace and space-based defense systems. Her responsibilities encompass the full lifecycle management of contracts for engineering services and technical support, ensuring operational readiness of guided missile systems, satellite communications networks, and global positioning infrastructure. She specializes in procuring mission-critical capabilities through competitive and non-competitive mechanisms, aligning each acquisition with national security priorities and Air Force sustainment objectives. While no specific contractor relationships are currently identifiable in the dataset, Harris routinely engages with a broad spectrum of professional services vendors, including defense contractors, systems integrators, and technical consultants with expertise in aerospace engineering and space domain operations. Her procurement approach emphasizes technical rigor, compliance with federal acquisition regulations, and performance-based contracting to ensure mission success and accountability. Harris’s contracting activity is entirely focused on open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions classified as “No Set-Aside,” indicating a strategic emphasis on technical merit and capability over socioeconomic preferences. This reflects a mission-driven procurement posture prioritizing performance and readiness over socioeconomic targeting, though it does not preclude small business participation when they meet technical requirements. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services) and 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services), encompassing systems engineering, test and evaluation, mission assurance, and technical analysis for space and missile platforms. She regularly sources specialized expertise in satellite command and control, navigation system sustainment, and secure communications architecture, demonstrating deep domain knowledge in space and aerospace sustainment operations.