Jennifer D. Easterling

Jennifer D. Easterling serves as a key procurement professional within the W39L USA Readiness Center, supporting the Department of the Army’s mission to sustain military readiness through expert consulting, engineering, and administrative services. She manages a diverse portfolio of contract actions focused on professional and technical services critical to training, logistics, and infrastructure sustainment. Her work ensures the timely acquisition of mission-critical capabilities that enhance command and control modernization, facility operations, and operational planning. Easterling handles complex solicitations under FAR Part 12 and Part 36, frequently leveraging performance-based contracting and requirements packages that emphasize outcome-driven deliverables. Her primary contractor relationships center on KPH Construction Corp, with whom she maintains a consistent working partnership on facility-related and infrastructure support contracts. She engages with a mix of large and small business vendors, fostering collaborative relationships grounded in compliance, performance accountability, and mission alignment. Easterling’s procurement approach emphasizes vendor reliability, technical competency, and adherence to federal standards, ensuring that contracted services directly support readiness objectives. Easterling’s contracting patterns reflect a balanced approach to socioeconomic participation, with approximately half of her awards issued as open competitions and the remainder split evenly between 8(a) competed set-asides and total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This demonstrates a deliberate commitment to expanding opportunities for small businesses while maintaining competitive integrity. She consistently prioritizes socioeconomically disadvantaged firms without compromising mission requirements, aligning with Army-wide small business goals. Her procurement focus is concentrated in NAICS 541611 (administrative management consulting) and 541690 (other technical consulting services), with notable activity in 541810 (advertising agencies) and 721110 (hotels and motels), indicating support for both operational sustainment and transient lodging needs. Her domain expertise spans facility management, training support services, and professional advisory services essential to force readiness.