Elizabeth W. Zaharopoulos

Elizabeth W. Zaharopoulos serves as a key procurement professional within the W4MM USA Joint Munitions Command, supporting the Department of Defense’s mission to ensure operational readiness through the lifecycle management of conventional ammunition and explosives. She manages complex acquisitions spanning production, storage, distribution, and demilitarization of munitions systems, with a focus on sustaining combat-effective supplies for land, air, and naval forces. Her work directly enables modernization initiatives and supply chain resilience, handling contracts for specialized industrial and technical services critical to national defense logistics. While specific contractor names are not available, Zaharopoulos engages with a diverse pool of vendors including manufacturers of munitions components, industrial equipment suppliers, and technical service providers. Her contracting patterns reflect a balanced approach, combining large-scale industrial capabilities with targeted small business participation. She fosters long-term vendor partnerships grounded in compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulation standards, emphasizing quality control, safety protocols, and defense-specific certification requirements. Zaharopoulos demonstrates a strong commitment to socioeconomic contracting, with over 36% of her acquisitions set aside for small businesses, including 31.8% as total small business set-asides and 4.5% competed under the 8(a) program. Her procurement strategy actively promotes inclusion of disadvantaged and veteran-owned firms, aligning with DoD mandates to broaden supplier diversity while maintaining mission-critical performance standards. Her primary NAICS focus includes industrial manufacturing sectors such as electroplating, aluminum production, and industrial fan and blower manufacturing—specialties essential to munitions component fabrication and facility infrastructure. She also procures specialized services in plumbing, heating, and air conditioning systems for secure storage facilities, reflecting her technical expertise in supporting the unique environmental and safety requirements of ammunition lifecycle operations.