Griselda Jones

Griselda F. Jones serves as a key procurement professional within the FA8823 Sustainment MCPNT SSC/PKL under the Department of the Air Force, where she supports the sustainment and modernization of critical aerospace and space-based defense systems. Her responsibilities encompass managing complex acquisitions for advanced navigation, satellite communications, and guided missile system infrastructure, ensuring operational readiness across global defense networks. She handles full lifecycle contracting for high-technology systems, including research and development, specialized instrumentation, and niche logistics services essential to maintaining space and air superiority. Her work directly enables the Air Force’s mission to preserve technological dominance in contested environments. Jones collaborates with a diverse range of contractors specializing in defense-critical technologies, including firms engaged in analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing, nonscheduled air freight for sensitive payloads, and R&D providers focused on physical and engineering sciences. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, her procurement strategy emphasizes technical precision, supply chain resilience, and mission-critical performance standards. She maintains collaborative relationships with vendors capable of meeting stringent DoD compliance, security, and delivery timelines, often requiring dual-use or classified-capable capabilities. Jones’s contracting activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of her awards issued under open competition. This reflects a strategic emphasis on technical merit and mission urgency over socioeconomic preferences, prioritizing capability and readiness over programmatic diversification. While small business participation is not formally incentivized in her portfolio, her selections are driven by proven performance in high-stakes technical domains. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541712 (R&D in physical and engineering sciences), 481212 (nonscheduled air freight), and 334516 (analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing). These reflect deep expertise in supporting advanced sensor development, rapid deployment of classified payloads, and precision test and calibration equipment critical to space and missile systems sustainment.