Harry L. Harting

Harry L. Harting serves as a key procurement professional within the Virginia Contracting Activity, operating under the Defense Intelligence Agency to support mission-critical intelligence operations. He manages the acquisition of technical services essential to national security, with a focus on systems design, custom software development, and engineering sciences that enable real-time data exploitation and classified operational support. His responsibilities include executing full lifecycle contracting for complex, high-stakes procurements aligned with the Department of Defense’s intelligence modernization priorities, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations while safeguarding sensitive program requirements. Harting maintains a balanced contractor ecosystem, engaging both large defense contractors and small businesses with specialized capabilities in intelligence systems and infrastructure. His procurement patterns reflect collaboration with vendors possessing top-secret clearance, advanced engineering expertise, and experience in secure software development environments. He fosters long-term partnerships with firms capable of delivering integrated solutions for physical and digital intelligence architectures, prioritizing technical proficiency and compliance over volume-based vendor relationships. His contracting approach demonstrates equal emphasis on open competition and small business participation, with approximately half of his acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to cultivate innovation through emerging vendors while maintaining flexibility to source from qualified large businesses when technical complexity demands it. His pattern underscores a strong commitment to socioeconomic diversity without compromising mission readiness. Harting’s primary procurement focus centers on NAICS 541310 (Architectural Services) and 236220 (Commercial and Institutional Building Construction), indicating significant investment in secure facility design and infrastructure to house intelligence operations. He procures services related to secure facility integration, electromagnetic shielding, hardened data centers, and mission-specific construction that supports classified environments. His domain expertise lies at the intersection of physical security engineering and intelligence systems architecture, ensuring that built environments are functionally aligned with evolving intelligence collection and analysis needs.