LTC Katrina Patton

LTC Katrina Patton serves as a key procurement lead within the Department of the Army, supporting the modernization of mission-critical research and development capabilities under the Department of Defense. She manages complex acquisitions for advanced scientific instrumentation, battlefield analytics systems, and engineering solutions that enhance test and evaluation infrastructure, communications resilience, and operational sustainment. Her portfolio centers on high-stakes R&D contracts aligned with the Army’s strategic imperative to field next-generation technologies that improve battlefield awareness and force readiness. Patton’s work ensures timely delivery of technical solutions through full and open competition, prioritizing innovation and mission alignment over socioeconomic set-asides. She maintains consistent, high-volume contracting relationships with leading defense and engineering contractors including FLUOR INTERCONTINENTAL, INC, KBR SERVICES, LLC, LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION, ARMY SUSTAINMENT LLC, and THE BOEING COMPANY. These partnerships reflect a reliance on large, integrated systems providers capable of delivering end-to-end research, development, test, and evaluation services across multidisciplinary domains. Her procurement approach emphasizes technical rigor, performance-based outcomes, and long-term sustainment planning, fostering collaborative, contractually robust engagements with prime contractors possessing deep domain expertise in defense science and engineering. Patton’s contracting activity is exclusively conducted under full and open competition, with no set-aside preferences applied—reflecting a deliberate focus on mission-critical performance over socioeconomic categorization. While small business participation is not structurally prioritized in her portfolio, this reflects the technical complexity and scale of the systems being procured rather than a lack of broader agency commitment to small business goals. Her primary NAICS focus is 541720—Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities—indicating a specialized emphasis on human-centered systems analysis, behavioral modeling, cognitive engineering, and operational research supporting force modernization. She procures advanced analytical platforms, simulation environments, and decision-support tools critical to evaluating human-system integration in complex military operations.