Christine D Powell

Christine D. Powell serves as Manager of Global Transportation Contracts, overseeing the strategic acquisition of international freight and passenger transportation services to support critical government mobility and logistics operations. In this role, she leads the planning, solicitation, and contract administration for complex multimodal transportation solutions, ensuring compliance with federal procurement regulations and operational efficiency across global supply chains. Her portfolio encompasses air and sea freight services essential to federal agency missions, requiring rigorous risk assessment, performance-based contracting, and international regulatory alignment. She plays a pivotal role in aligning transportation acquisitions with national security and logistical readiness objectives. Christine cultivates long-term partnerships with a diverse array of certified and non-certified transportation providers, including global carriers, air cargo operators, and specialized logistics integrators. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance metrics, service-level agreements, and continuous improvement mechanisms to ensure reliability and accountability. While she engages with both large-scale international vendors and niche service providers, her focus remains on securing capacity, schedule integrity, and compliance with U.S. transportation standards, regardless of vendor size or certification status. Her procurement activity reflects a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of awards issued under non-set-aside conditions. Christine does not prioritize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, instead emphasizing technical capability, operational scale, and global reach as primary selection criteria. This approach underscores a mission-driven focus on securing reliable, high-capacity transportation assets over socioeconomic targeting. Christine’s primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 483111 (Deep Sea Freight Transportation) and the full spectrum of air transportation services—481111 (Scheduled Passenger Air), 481112 (Scheduled Freight Air), and 481219 (Other Nonscheduled Air Transportation). She specializes in procuring time-sensitive, high-value cargo movement, passenger transport for official travel, and emergency response logistics, demonstrating deep expertise in international airfreight regulations, ocean containerization, and air carrier certification standards.