Judy Taylor

Judy Taylor serves as a Contract Specialist for the 4th Combat Communications Squadron (FA4809), Department of the Air Force, where she manages the acquisition of mission-critical communications infrastructure and specialized equipment essential to sustaining air operations readiness. Her responsibilities include planning, soliciting, negotiating, and administering contracts for advanced radio systems, aircraft subsystems, and secure broadcast technologies. She plays a pivotal role in ensuring the squadron’s ability to deploy resilient, encrypted, and expeditionary communication capabilities under dynamic operational conditions, aligning procurement actions with Air Force modernization priorities and national defense standards. Judy maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of contractors including Solomon Engineering, Inc., Branscome Operating, LLC, Western Metal Supply Company, Inc., X Cell Management Inc., and Textron Systems Corporation. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with proven expertise in aerospace-grade communications hardware, ruggedized equipment leasing, and secure system integration. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, technical compliance, and timely delivery in support of time-sensitive operational deployments, fostering collaborative, long-term vendor engagement grounded in reliability and regulatory adherence. Judy demonstrates an unwavering commitment to small business participation, with 100% of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to cultivate capability within the small business industrial base, ensuring equitable access to defense contracting opportunities while reinforcing the Air Force’s socioeconomic objectives. Her portfolio consistently awards contracts to small businesses capable of delivering niche, high-precision services and equipment critical to expeditionary communications. Her primary procurement focus is under NAICS 532490—Other Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Rental and Leasing—reflecting a strategic reliance on leased, modular, and rapidly deployable communications systems. She specializes in acquiring temporary and mission-tailored equipment such as satellite terminals, mobile radio relays, and secure transmission platforms, demonstrating deep technical familiarity with expeditionary air command and control environments.