Heather L. Race

Heather L. Race serves as a key procurement professional within NAVFACSYSCOM Atlantic, supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to sustain and modernize critical naval infrastructure across the Atlantic region and overseas installations. She manages complex construction and engineering acquisitions aligned with strategic priorities including power and water resiliency, munitions storage upgrades, and expeditionary facility development. Her portfolio centers on large-scale civil engineering and multifamily housing projects, ensuring compliance with federal construction standards and operational readiness requirements. She plays a pivotal role in executing contract vehicles that deliver mission-critical facilities through integrated design-build and construction management approaches. Race maintains longstanding relationships with top-tier contractors including MEB General Contractors Inc., AMD International Technologies LLC, Stantec-AECOM SIOP JV, M&N-BMCD LANT SIOP JV, and Cape-Aptim JV1, LLC. These partnerships reflect a preference for joint ventures and experienced firms capable of delivering integrated solutions for heavy civil infrastructure and residential-scale military housing. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, risk mitigation, and technical compliance, often leveraging Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) and Other Transaction Authority (OTA) mechanisms to accelerate delivery timelines. Her procurement activity is entirely non-set-aside, with no preference for 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, indicating a focus on full and open competition to secure specialized capabilities required for high-complexity projects. This reflects a mission-driven strategy prioritizing technical expertise and scale over socioeconomic set-asides, consistent with the scale and urgency of naval infrastructure needs. Race’s primary NAICS focus is on 237990 (Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction) and 236116 (New Multifamily Housing Construction), underscoring her expertise in large-scale earthwork, utilities, structural systems, and military family housing development. She procures turnkey solutions involving geotechnical engineering, stormwater management, energy-efficient building systems, and secure munitions handling infrastructure, demonstrating deep technical fluency in defense-specific construction standards and DoD facility requirements.