Drena J. McIntosh

Drena J. McIntosh serves as a Contracting Officer for the Commanding General under the Department of the Navy, where she plays a pivotal role in securing mission-critical maintenance, logistics, and specialized support services essential to naval and marine force readiness. She manages a diverse portfolio of acquisitions focused on sustaining combat systems, mobility assets, and expeditionary infrastructure, ensuring equipment reliability across both garrison and deployed environments. Her work directly supports operational continuity by procuring services that maintain readiness through preventive maintenance, rapid repair cycles, and mission-enabling logistics solutions. McIntosh maintains consistent contracting relationships with a core group of vendors including MANCON LLC, GEMINI TECH SERVICES LLC, CHEMBLE SOLUTIONS, LLC, MICROTECHNOLOGIES LLC, and SAELIG COMPANY, INC. These partnerships reflect a preference for specialized service providers with demonstrated expertise in technical maintenance, equipment refurbishment, and mission-support logistics. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, leveraging long-term vendor relationships to ensure quality, responsiveness, and compliance with military standards. A strong advocate for small business participation, McIntosh consistently prioritizes small business set-asides, with over half of her acquisitions structured under the FAR 19.5 Total Small Business Set-Aside program. She also actively utilizes HUBZone set-asides, reflecting a deliberate commitment to economic development in underserved communities. Her socioeconomic contracting patterns demonstrate a balanced strategy that promotes competition while advancing federal small business goals. Her primary procurement focus centers on NAICS codes related to other motor vehicle parts manufacturing, personal and household goods repair and maintenance, industrial laundering, and ground passenger transportation services. These reflect a specialized domain in the sustainment of tactical and support vehicles, field equipment, and expeditionary logistics infrastructure. McIntosh’s expertise lies in procuring technically complex, non-standard services that require tailored contract vehicles and performance metrics to meet the unique demands of naval and marine operations.