Lisa M. Burns

Lisa M. Burns serves as a key procurement lead within the W7N8 Uspfo Activity Wiang Crtc, a Department of the Army entity focused on sustaining military readiness through infrastructure, logistics, and operational support acquisitions. She manages a diverse portfolio of contracts critical to ground force mobility, facility resilience, and aviation support, with an emphasis on prefabricated training structures, maintenance facilities, and mission-critical services. Her work directly enables the agency’s mission to modernize training environments and ensure operational sustainment across active-duty and reserve components. Burns routinely handles complex, multi-year procurements under FAR Part 13 and Part 15, balancing urgency with compliance in high-priority acquisition cycles. Her primary contractor relationship is with FIRE FACILITIES, INC., a trusted vendor specializing in modular, rapid-deployment infrastructure solutions for military training sites. Burns maintains a consistent pattern of sole-source and limited-competition awards to this firm for specialized facility upgrades, while also engaging a broader network of small business vendors for ancillary services such as industrial laundry, food service, and testing support. Her contracting approach reflects a preference for repeat partnerships with proven performers who meet stringent DoD quality and delivery standards. Burns demonstrates a strong commitment to socioeconomic contracting, with 60% of her awards designated as Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, reflecting a deliberate strategy to expand small business participation. An additional 5% are reserved for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, underscoring her alignment with DoD’s veteran-centric procurement goals. While 35% of contracts are open to all competitors, her portfolio consistently prioritizes small business engagement as a core element of mission success. Her procurement focus centers on NAICS 721110 (lodging for transient military personnel), 812332 (industrial laundering for uniform and gear maintenance), 722310 (on-site food service contractors), and 541380 (testing laboratories for equipment safety and compliance). These categories reveal expertise in life-cycle support services that underpin daily operational readiness, with technical proficiency in facility management, logistics sustainment, and quality assurance protocols.