Clara Carr-Felder

Clara Carr-Felder serves as a key procurement professional within the Defense Logistics Agency’s Troop Support organization, responsible for managing the acquisition of critical medical, dental, and hospital equipment and supplies essential to sustaining U.S. military readiness. She plays a central role in fulfilling DLA Troop Support’s mission to ensure operational continuity by securing high-reliability, deployable medical systems and consumables that support field hospitals, combat support units, and garrison medical facilities. Her acquisitions focus on mission-critical healthcare infrastructure, including diagnostic devices, sterilization equipment, climate-controlled storage units, and specialized medical consumables compliant with military specifications. Carr-Felder maintains consistent contracting relationships with leading suppliers in the medical wholesale sector, including WESTLAND TECHNOLOGIES, INC., ENGINEERED COIL COMPANY, ECI DEFENSE GROUP, INC., PIONEER INDUSTRIES, LLC, and AEROSPACE & COMMERCIAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC. These vendors are selected for their proven ability to deliver ruggedized, compliant, and rapidly deployable medical systems under demanding operational conditions. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based specifications, lifecycle support, and supply chain resilience, fostering long-term partnerships with manufacturers capable of meeting stringent DoD quality and logistics requirements. Carr-Felder’s procurement portfolio is entirely unrestricted, with no set-aside preferences applied to her awards. All acquisitions are competed open to all eligible vendors, reflecting a strategic emphasis on maximizing competition, technical capability, and delivery speed over socioeconomic classifications. This approach ensures access to the broadest possible pool of qualified suppliers with the capacity to meet urgent operational demands. Her primary focus lies in NAICS 423450, encompassing merchant wholesalers of medical, dental, and hospital equipment. She specializes in procuring FDA-regulated, MIL-SPEC compliant devices, including portable ventilators, trauma care kits, refrigerated pharmaceutical storage units, and modular medical containers. Her technical expertise centers on the integration of medical logistics systems with expeditionary force structures, ensuring equipment interoperability and readiness across global theaters.