Craig Castleman

Craig Castleman serves as a key procurement lead within the W40M USA HCA, operating under the Department of the Army, where he manages the acquisition of mission-critical medical technologies and clinical support systems essential to battlefield and garrison healthcare readiness. His responsibilities include soliciting, evaluating, and awarding contracts for diagnostic equipment, surgical instrumentation, laboratory systems, and associated software platforms that enable combat medics and military medical facilities to deliver high-acuity care. Castleman’s portfolio is strategically aligned with the agency’s mandate to modernize operational health infrastructure, ensuring that deployed and garrisoned units have access to reliable, FDA-cleared, and MIL-SPEC-compliant medical assets. He maintains consistent, high-volume contracting relationships with leading medical technology providers including QuidelOrtho, Steris, MDM Technologies, Sysmex America, and LBT Diagnostic Radiation Physics Consulting. These partnerships reflect a preference for established vendors with proven capabilities in clinical diagnostics, sterilization systems, laboratory automation, and radiation safety consulting. Castleman’s contracting approach emphasizes technical compliance, regulatory adherence, and lifecycle support, often leveraging Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) and Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) mechanisms to ensure rapid response and sustained supply chain resilience. Castleman’s procurement activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic emphasis on technical superiority and operational readiness over socioeconomic preferences, prioritizing vendor capability and system interoperability over certification-based set-asides. His primary focus lies in NAICS 621511 (Medical Laboratories), 334516 (Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing), and 513210 (Software Publishers), underscoring deep expertise in procuring automated diagnostic analyzers, point-of-care testing platforms, laboratory information systems, and clinical decision support software. His domain knowledge spans hematology, immunoassay, radiological physics, and sterile processing automation, positioning him as a technical procurement specialist in military medical systems integration.