Cynthia Cherry

Cynthia Cherry serves as a Contracting Officer with the W6QM MICC-FDO at Fort Eustis, under the Department of the Army, where she manages the acquisition of professional, technical, and educational services essential to mission command, training, and sustainment operations. Her portfolio centers on enabling battlefield decision-making, cyber readiness, and high-fidelity soldier training environments through complex service contracts. She executes full and open competitions as well as targeted set-asides, ensuring compliance with FAR and DFARS while aligning procurements with the Army’s strategic modernization goals. Cherry’s acquisitions support mission-critical capabilities in command and control systems, logistics analytics, and adaptive training solutions. Cherry maintains a primary contracting relationship with Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., a key provider of strategic consulting and technical services to the Department of Defense. Her procurement patterns reflect a preference for established defense contractors with proven expertise in mission support domains, while also integrating smaller firms through competitive set-asides. She fosters long-term vendor partnerships grounded in performance-based contracting, statement of work rigor, and outcome-driven delivery metrics, ensuring alignment with operational requirements and readiness objectives. Cherry demonstrates a balanced commitment to socioeconomic programs, with 50% of her acquisitions conducted as full and open competitions, 25% awarded under the 8(a) program, and 25% as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. Her approach reflects a deliberate effort to expand small business participation without compromising mission needs, consistently leveraging 8(a) and small business set-asides to cultivate a diverse, capable supplier base aligned with Army modernization priorities. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services), encompassing mission support, training systems, and operational analysis. She also frequently procures administrative management consulting (541611) and telephone answering services (561421) to sustain command infrastructure. Her expertise spans technical services that enhance situational awareness, decision support, and force readiness across the Army’s training and sustainment enterprise.