Dexter J. Hornsby

Dexter J. Hornsby serves as a key procurement professional within the W6QK Acc-rsa office of the Department of the Army, supporting the modernization and sustainment of critical aerial and missile defense systems. He manages the acquisition of advanced aerospace components and mission-critical support services essential to the UH-60 Black Hawk, AH-64 Apache, and related air defense platforms. His responsibilities include soliciting, evaluating, and awarding contracts for high-performance avionics, propulsion subsystems, sensor arrays, and guided missile integration technologies, ensuring alignment with Army modernization priorities and operational readiness requirements. Hornsby collaborates with a broad spectrum of defense aerospace contractors specializing in precision engineering and systems integration. While no single vendor dominates his portfolio, he consistently engages with Tier 1 defense primes and niche suppliers possessing AS9100 certification and ITAR compliance, fostering partnerships grounded in technical rigor and supply chain resilience. His contracting approach emphasizes performance-based requirements, open competition, and rigorous technical evaluation to ensure mission-critical reliability under austere conditions. Hornsby’s procurement strategy reflects a strong preference for full and open competition, with 100% of his acquisitions conducted without set-aside designations. This indicates a focus on technical capability over socioeconomic categorization, prioritizing mission need and system interoperability above small business set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. His approach aligns with the high-stakes nature of defense aerospace procurement, where performance thresholds and certification standards outweigh socioeconomic preferences. His primary technical focus lies in NAICS 334511 for aerospace navigation and guidance systems and 336413 for aircraft auxiliary equipment manufacturing. He routinely procures flight control units, radar warning receivers, electronic countermeasure modules, and engine control units, demonstrating deep expertise in avionics architecture, electro-optical sensing, and embedded systems integration. Hornsby’s work directly enables the Army’s air dominance and point-defense capabilities across contested environments.