Christine Russman

Christine Russman serves as a key procurement professional within the Defense Health Agency, supporting the delivery of mission-critical healthcare services to uniformed service members, retirees, and their families. She manages a diverse portfolio of acquisitions focused on medical equipment maintenance, clinical infrastructure, and pharmaceutical supply chain support, ensuring operational readiness through reliable, compliant contracting practices. Her work directly enables the agency’s strategic priorities in modernizing clinical workflows and sustaining advanced diagnostic and surgical systems across global DoD installations. Russman handles a mix of commercial and specialized healthcare-related contracts, often navigating complex regulatory frameworks under FAR and DFARS to meet stringent DoD standards. She maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of contractors including Dependable On-Site Scan & Shred, Inc., Hanith Bioscience, LLC, Livion Technology, LLC, I-2-I Solutions, Inc., and Draeger Inc., each providing specialized services in medical device repair, bioscience solutions, health IT integration, and clinical safety equipment. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with proven technical expertise in maintaining high-reliability medical systems and secure data-handling environments, often requiring ISO or FDA-compliant certifications. Russman’s contracting patterns show a strong inclination toward open competition, with 83.3% of awards issued without set-asides, indicating a focus on technical merit and capability over socioeconomic preferences. Nevertheless, she consistently allocates 16.7% of awards to total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a measured but intentional commitment to small business participation within the constraints of mission-critical requirements. Her procurement focus centers on NAICS 811210 for electronic and precision equipment repair, followed by 622110 for hospital services and 621111 for physician offices. She frequently procures diagnostic imaging maintenance, surgical instrument calibration, pharmaceutical preparation systems, and computerized health infrastructure, reflecting deep expertise in sustaining the technical backbone of military healthcare delivery.