Dalal Estrada

Ms. Dalal Estrada serves as a contracting professional within the FA8823 Sustainment MCPNT SSC/PKL, a critical unit under the Department of the Air Force responsible for sustaining and modernizing aerospace and space-based defense systems. She manages the acquisition lifecycle for mission-critical computing infrastructure and data services that support guided missile systems, satellite communications, and global positioning networks. Her procurement activities are central to ensuring operational readiness and technological resilience across the Air Force’s space and missile sustainment enterprise, with a focus on secure, scalable, and mission-essential IT platforms. Ms. Estrada’s contractor relationships are primarily with firms specializing in secure computing infrastructure, data processing, and cloud-enabled mission systems. She engages with a broad spectrum of vendors, including large systems integrators and specialized IT service providers, to deliver resilient, compliant, and interoperable solutions. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, cybersecurity compliance, and lifecycle support, fostering long-term partnerships with vendors capable of sustaining complex, high-availability systems under austere operational conditions. Ms. Estrada’s contracting portfolio reflects a 100% non-set-aside orientation, indicating a primary focus on full and open competition to ensure access to the broadest possible pool of technical expertise. While socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB are not currently utilized in her acquisitions, this reflects mission-critical requirements demanding specialized capabilities often found in the broader market rather than a lack of small business engagement elsewhere in the agency. Her primary NAICS focus is 518210, encompassing computing infrastructure providers, data processing, and web hosting services. She procures secure cloud environments, mission data platforms, real-time analytics systems, and hardened network services essential to space and missile sustainment operations. Her technical expertise lies at the intersection of defense IT infrastructure and space domain awareness, ensuring that acquisition outcomes directly enable the operational tempo and cyber resilience of Air Force space assets.