Ellieth Rodriguez

Major Ellieth Rodriguez serves as a key contracting professional at the W39L USA Readiness Center under the Department of the Army, where she manages the acquisition of professional services critical to sustaining military readiness. Her portfolio centers on administrative and general management consulting services, ensuring that the Readiness Center’s training, logistics, and infrastructure programs are supported by expert advisory capabilities. She is responsible for planning, soliciting, awarding, and administering contracts that enhance command and control modernization, operational planning, and facility sustainment initiatives, aligning all acquisitions with Department of Defense procurement policies and strategic readiness objectives. Major Rodriguez maintains a primary contracting relationship with KPH Construction Corp, a trusted vendor delivering integrated consulting and operational support services. Her working relationships reflect a preference for established contractors with proven expertise in military readiness environments, fostering long-term partnerships that ensure continuity, compliance, and mission alignment. While she engages with a limited number of core vendors, her approach emphasizes performance accountability, technical proficiency, and adherence to federal acquisition regulations. Her contracting patterns show a strong preference for open competition, with 66.7% of awards issued without set-asides, while 33.3% are structured as Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5. This balanced approach reflects a deliberate commitment to small business participation without compromising mission-critical requirements, demonstrating a strategic alignment with DoD socioeconomic goals. Major Rodriguez’s procurement focus is exclusively on NAICS 541611—Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services—encompassing strategic planning, organizational development, training program design, and readiness assessment consulting. She specializes in acquiring high-level advisory services that support the optimization of Army training pipelines, command structure efficiency, and infrastructure resilience, ensuring that the Readiness Center maintains a technologically agile and operationally prepared force posture.