Catherine Cloran

Catherine Cloran serves as a key procurement professional within the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation’s Oklahoma City office, where she manages the acquisition of critical aviation components and auxiliary equipment essential to sustaining U.S. military aircraft readiness. Her role centers on ensuring operational availability of airframes, propulsion systems, and avionics for legacy and modern DoD platforms by executing full-cycle contracting actions under the NAICS 336413 classification. She oversees the procurement of specialized parts and support hardware required for maintenance, repair, and overhaul operations, aligning acquisitions with DLA Aviation’s mission of supply chain resilience and mission-critical sustainment. Cloran maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of established contractors including Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Aero International, LLC, Thomas Instrument, Incorporated, and Intertrade Limited. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with deep technical expertise in aerospace manufacturing, component refurbishment, and certified aviation parts distribution. Her contracting approach emphasizes reliability, compliance with military specifications, and long-term supplier performance, fostering stable, performance-driven vendor relationships critical to sustaining high-demand aviation systems. Her procurement activity is entirely classified under “No Set-Aside,” indicating a focus on open competition without socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB preferences. This reflects a strategic prioritization of technical capability and supply chain continuity over socioeconomic categorization, ensuring access to specialized industrial capacity required for complex aviation hardware. Cloran’s portfolio is exclusively focused on NAICS 336413—Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing—encompassing non-airframe components such as sensors, actuators, control systems, and mission-critical avionics support hardware. Her technical expertise lies in the procurement of certified, traceable aviation parts that meet FAA and MIL-SPEC standards, demonstrating specialized knowledge in aerospace logistics, obsolescence management, and sustainment supply chain dynamics for both legacy and active-duty aircraft fleets.