Karen S Cimorelli

Karen S. Cimorelli serves as a Contract Specialist with the 763d Enterprise Sourcing Squadron under the Department of the Air Force, where she plays a pivotal role in executing mission-critical acquisitions that sustain airpower readiness. She manages the full lifecycle of procurement actions for computer facilities management services, ensuring alignment with operational requirements for pilot training systems, communications infrastructure, and enterprise IT support. Her work directly enables the modernization of technical environments critical to flight operations and logistics agility, bridging technical needs with compliant contracting practices under FAR and DFARS frameworks. Cimorelli collaborates with a diverse range of vendors specializing in IT infrastructure, cloud-enabled facilities management, and mission-critical systems integration. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages both large-scale IT service providers and small business entities, fostering competitive, transparent sourcing environments. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, robust deliverables tracking, and risk mitigation through clear statement of work development and contract administration. A strong advocate for socioeconomic programs, Cimorelli exhibits a balanced preference for service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) set-asides, matching the 50% allocation of non-set-aside procurements. This pattern reflects a deliberate strategy to promote veteran entrepreneurship while maintaining broad competition. Her consistent use of SDVOSB set-asides underscores a commitment to both mission effectiveness and statutory small business goals under the VA and DoD initiatives. Her procurement focus is exclusively centered on NAICS 541513—Computer Facilities Management Services—encompassing data center operations, network maintenance, cybersecurity-enabled infrastructure, and managed IT services for government-hosted systems. She specializes in acquiring scalable, resilient technical environments that support high-availability computing needs across training and combat readiness domains, demonstrating deep domain expertise in enterprise IT service delivery within defense ecosystems.