Lara Chiaurro

Lara Chiaurro serves as a key procurement professional within the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), supporting the agency’s mission to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient computing infrastructure for the Department of Defense. She manages complex acquisitions for enterprise-level cloud services, data processing platforms, and mission-critical network modernization initiatives, ensuring alignment with DoD cybersecurity standards and enterprise architecture frameworks. Her work directly enables the joint force’s operational readiness by securing reliable, high-performance IT environments for both classified and unclassified missions, with a strong emphasis on compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) requirements. Chiaurro maintains a primary working relationship with Oracle America, Inc., leveraging its enterprise cloud and data processing solutions to support DISA’s infrastructure modernization goals. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for established large-system integrators with proven capabilities in secure cloud hosting, data center operations, and mission-critical application support. While Oracle dominates her portfolio, she also engages with a broader ecosystem of qualified vendors capable of meeting stringent DoD compliance and interoperability standards. Her procurement activity shows a strong preference for open competition, with 94.7% of contracts awarded without set-aside restrictions, indicating a focus on technical capability over socioeconomic classifications. Only 5.3% of awards are allocated under Total Small Business Set-Asides, suggesting a targeted, rather than broad, approach to small business participation, typically reserved for niche or specialized services. Chiaurro’s acquisitions are overwhelmingly concentrated in NAICS 518210, reflecting deep expertise in procuring computing infrastructure, data hosting, and web services essential to DISA’s enterprise cloud strategy. She also engages NAICS 541512 for custom systems design services that integrate secure architectures across hybrid environments. Her technical domain centers on secure cloud migration, data center modernization, and scalable computing platforms that support the DoD’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) objectives.