Carrie Spurgetis

Carrie Spurgetis serves as a Contracting Officer/Specialist within the W6QK Acc-ri under the Department of the Army, where she plays a pivotal role in executing the agency’s mission to sustain and modernize the U.S. Army’s industrial base for munitions, precision components, and battlefield support systems. She manages the full lifecycle of procurement actions for critical defense-related goods and services, with a primary focus on metal heat treating, fabricated metal products, and machine tool maintenance. Her acquisitions directly support weapons systems readiness, ammunition production, and field equipment lifecycle sustainment, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations and operational mission requirements. Spurgetis maintains consistent, high-volume contracting relationships with specialized industrial contractors, including AMD International Technologies LLC, Faxon Machining, LLC, Palantir USG Inc., and Allied Metal Tech, LLC. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with deep technical expertise in precision machining, heat treatment processes, and defense-grade metal fabrication. Her contracting approach emphasizes reliability, quality assurance, and supply chain resilience, fostering long-term collaborations with contractors capable of meeting stringent military specifications and just-in-time delivery demands. A defining feature of Spurgetis’s procurement strategy is her exclusive use of Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, ensuring 100% of her acquisitions are reserved for small businesses. This unwavering commitment reflects a strategic alignment with Department of Defense socioeconomic goals, empowering small manufacturers to contribute directly to national defense readiness. She actively cultivates a robust pipeline of qualified small business vendors, promoting equitable access to high-value defense contracts without compromising technical performance or mission-critical timelines. Her technical domain is narrowly focused on NAICS 332811 (Metal Heat Treating), where she procures services essential to hardening, tempering, and stress-relieving critical metal components used in ordnance and weapon systems. This specialization underscores her expertise in materials science applications within military logistics and her ability to navigate complex metallurgical requirements to ensure component integrity under extreme operational conditions.