Cynthia R Swift

Cynthia R. Swift serves as a Contract Specialist within the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Office of Contracting, supporting the agency’s mission to deliver timely, accurate geospatial intelligence in service of national security and defense operations. In this role, she manages the full lifecycle of procurement actions for technical services related to geospatial data collection, analysis, and infrastructure modernization. Her portfolio primarily consists of competitive and non-competitive acquisitions under the NAICS 541370 category, focusing on surveying and mapping services that enable precision geospatial products and geospatial intelligence systems. She ensures compliance with federal acquisition regulations while aligning contract strategies with NGA’s strategic priorities in geospatial technology innovation. Ms. Swift maintains a consistent working relationship with ECS Federal, LLC, a prime contractor with deep expertise in geospatial analytics and mission-critical systems integration. Her procurement patterns reflect a preference for established industry partners with proven capabilities in advanced mapping, imagery exploitation, and geospatial data infrastructure development. She engages contractors through performance-based, task-order contracts and often leverages indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) mechanisms to ensure agile response to evolving operational requirements. Ms. Swift’s contracting activity is exclusively non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic alignment with NGA’s need for specialized technical expertise and the limited availability of qualified small businesses in the high-precision geospatial services domain. While small business participation is not formally prioritized in her portfolio, she ensures all procurements adhere to statutory requirements and promote fair competition. Her primary industry focus is NAICS 541370—Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services—where she procures advanced geospatial data processing, photogrammetric analysis, GIS system development, and cartographic services. Her technical domain expertise centers on the acquisition of high-resolution imagery exploitation tools, geospatial database modernization, and automated feature extraction systems critical to NGA’s intelligence production cycle.