Krissy Gracia

Krissy Gracia serves as a procurement professional within the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, where she plays a critical role in securing high-reliability electronic components essential for the sustainment of U.S. military aircraft systems. Her work directly supports DLA Aviation’s mission to ensure continuous operational readiness by acquiring mission-critical parts that address technical obsolescence, supply chain vulnerabilities, and rapid logistics demands. She manages a focused portfolio of acquisitions centered on electronic subsystems, including circuit boards, avionics modules, and specialized sensors used in flight control, navigation, and engine monitoring systems, ensuring compliance with military specification standards and lifecycle sustainment requirements. Gracia maintains a broad network of suppliers across the defense electronics sector, engaging with both large-tier manufacturers and niche specialists capable of reproducing legacy or hard-to-source components. Her contracting approach emphasizes technical capability, quality assurance, and supply chain traceability, often requiring vendors to demonstrate compliance with AS9100, ITAR, and MIL-STD protocols. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she routinely collaborates with firms possessing specialized expertise in reverse engineering, obsolescence management, and qualified manufacturer listing (QML) compliance. Her procurement patterns reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 91.7% of actions issued as non-set-aside acquisitions under FAR Part 15. Nevertheless, she consistently allocates 8.3% of opportunities to total small business set-asides, demonstrating a measured but deliberate commitment to fostering innovation and capacity within the small business industrial base. Gracia’s expertise is narrowly concentrated in NAICS 334419, Other Electronic Component Manufacturing, where she procures custom and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) electronic components tailored for harsh-environment military applications. Her technical domain spans avionics, power conditioning units, and embedded control systems, requiring deep familiarity with military-grade material specifications, conformal coating standards, and long-term parts obsolescence mitigation strategies.