Eric J. Mahowald

Eric J. Mahowald serves as a Contracting Officer within the Department of the Air Force’s FA4600 55 Cons Pkp, responsible for managing mission-critical acquisitions that sustain and modernize physical infrastructure, communications systems, and cyber-enabled facilities across Air Force installations. He oversees the full lifecycle of contract actions—from solicitation through award and administration—ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations while supporting operational readiness. His portfolio primarily includes engineering services, flight training support, and management consulting contracts essential to maintaining high-reliability environments for national defense operations. Mahowald maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of contractors including COMMAND CONTROL COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING & LOGISTICS LLC, PRIMECORPS LLC, TECHNOLOGISTY LLC, AMORSERV LLC, and ELKHORN WEST CONSTRUCTION, INC. These partnerships reflect a preference for established vendors with proven capabilities in infrastructure resilience, secure communications, and facility maintenance. His contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, leveraging long-term vendor engagement to ensure technical fidelity and mission continuity across complex, high-stakes environments. While the majority of his acquisitions are conducted as open competitions, Mahowald maintains a deliberate 25% allocation to Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a structured commitment to small business participation. He does not routinely utilize specialized socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB, instead favoring broad small business eligibility to foster competition among qualified firms without imposing additional certification constraints. His procurement focus is heavily concentrated in NAICS 611512 (Flight Training), where he supports pilot readiness programs, and equally in NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services) and 541618 (Other Management Consulting Services), reflecting expertise in technical infrastructure modernization and operational planning. He routinely procures services related to HVAC and electrical system sustainment, secure computing environment design, and mission-critical facility management, underscoring his specialization in defense infrastructure resilience.