Felicia London

Felicia London serves as the primary procurement lead for the DCSO Columbus Division #3 under the Defense Logistics Agency, overseeing the acquisition of critical strategic materials essential to national defense systems. She manages complex contracts for high-purity nonferrous metals, specialty chemicals, and engineered industrial inputs used in aerospace, electronics, and weapons platforms. Her role is central to ensuring supply chain resilience by securing domestic sources of rare and mission-critical inputs, aligning acquisitions with DOD strategic priorities for materiel security and industrial base sustainability. She handles sole-source, competitive, and negotiated procurements under FAR Part 13 and Part 15, with a focus on technical specifications requiring stringent material certification and traceability. London maintains a primary contracting relationship with ARES STRATEGIC MINING, INC., a key vendor providing refined nonferrous metals and mineral feedstocks aligned with defense-grade purity standards. Her procurement pattern reflects long-term, performance-based partnerships with specialized industrial suppliers capable of meeting exacting military specifications, often involving technical evaluations and quality assurance protocols beyond standard commercial practices. While she engages with a limited pool of qualified vendors due to the niche nature of the materials, her approach emphasizes reliability, supply chain integrity, and compliance with defense industrial base requirements. Her contracting portfolio is overwhelmingly non-set-aside, with 92.3% of awards conducted under full and open competition, reflecting the highly specialized and limited vendor base for defense-critical materials. Small business participation is minimal but intentional, with 6.6% allocated to total small business set-asides and 1.1% to 8(a) competed contracts, indicating a focus on capability over socioeconomic preference. London’s procurement activity is concentrated in NAICS 331410 (nonferrous metal smelting and refining), 311999 (miscellaneous food manufacturing), and 314910 (textile bag and canvas mills), with the latter two likely supporting packaging, containment, or logistics infrastructure for hazardous or sensitive materials. Her domain expertise lies in procuring technically complex, regulated industrial inputs with strict material traceability, purity, and security requirements critical to defense manufacturing.