Cheryl Maison

Cheryl Maison serves as a Disaster Recovery Specialist within Region 1: Emergency Preparedness, under the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Office of the Department of Homeland Security. In this critical role, she supports the agency’s mission to ensure operational continuity of life-safety infrastructure and emergency response facilities through strategic acquisition planning and contract execution. Her responsibilities include identifying procurement needs for disaster recovery systems, managing solicitations for facility resilience upgrades, and ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations for emergency preparedness initiatives. She typically handles complex, mission-critical acquisitions related to emergency communications, facility retrofitting, and incident management systems designed to sustain public safety operations during and after catastrophic events. Cheryl works closely with a diverse pool of vendors specializing in emergency response technologies, infrastructure hardening, and continuity-of-operations solutions. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she engages with firms possessing proven expertise in FEMA-aligned standards, including those certified in emergency management systems, geospatial data integration, and NIMS-compliant command and control platforms. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, vendor qualifications, and technical alignment with federal resilience benchmarks, fostering long-term partnerships with contractors who demonstrate reliability under high-stress operational conditions. Cheryl’s procurement patterns reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions designated as “No Set-Aside.” This indicates a focus on technical merit and capability over socioeconomic classifications, though she remains compliant with all federal small business outreach requirements. Her approach prioritizes mission readiness over socioeconomic preferences, ensuring the most qualified vendors—regardless of size or certification—are selected based on performance, innovation, and compliance with federal emergency standards. Her primary procurement focus is NAICS 454310, which encompasses electronic shopping and mail-order houses, but in this context, it reflects the acquisition of specialized emergency equipment, pre-positioned response supplies, and integrated logistics systems critical to disaster recovery. She specializes in procuring hardened communication devices, mobile command units, power generation systems, and facility access control technologies essential to sustaining operations during infrastructure failures. Her technical domain expertise lies at the intersection of emergency logistics, infrastructure resilience, and federal procurement compliance.