Leomia Craddock-Hampton

Leomia Craddock-Hampton serves as a primary procurement lead within DLA Aviation, responsible for managing the acquisition of critical aviation components and subsystems essential to the readiness and sustainment of U.S. military aircraft systems. She plays a central role in ensuring the continuous availability of high-reliability parts for engines, avionics, and auxiliary systems, aligning acquisitions with the agency’s mission of supply chain resilience and technical obsolescence management. Her portfolio primarily encompasses direct procurement of manufactured parts and engineering services, with a focus on rapid logistics response and mission-critical inventory sustainment. She interfaces closely with technical specialists and logistics planners to validate requirements and ensure compliance with military specification standards. Her contractor relationships are broadly distributed across the aerospace and defense manufacturing sector, with no single vendor dominating her acquisition portfolio. She engages with a diverse base of suppliers—including Tier 1 and Tier 2 manufacturers of aircraft parts, electrical components, and specialized transformers—emphasizing technical capability, quality assurance, and on-time delivery over sole-source reliance. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for competitive, open-market solicitations, fostering a supplier ecosystem grounded in performance and compliance with DoD acquisition regulations. Craddock-Hampton’s procurement activity is exclusively non-set-aside, with 100% of acquisitions conducted under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic alignment with DLA Aviation’s mission to prioritize operational readiness over socioeconomic preferences, ensuring the widest possible access to technical expertise and production capacity without restriction. While small business participation is not formally incentivized in her portfolio, vendors of all sizes compete on technical merit and delivery reliability. Her primary industry focus is NAICS 336413—Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing—accounting for over 94% of her acquisitions. She routinely procures flight control actuators, electrical connectors, hydraulic components, and engine mounts, with minor activity in power transformers and wiring devices. Her expertise lies in managing complex supply chains for legacy and modernized aircraft systems, requiring deep understanding of MIL-SPEC compliance, obsolescence mitigation, and life-cycle sustainment strategies.