Lynn Lackey

Lynn Lackey serves as a Contracting Officer at the Defense Media Activity (DMA) Riverside, under the Department of Defense, where she manages the acquisition of professional training and development services critical to sustaining the agency’s multimedia mission. Responsible for full lifecycle contract execution, she ensures compliance with FAR and DFARS regulations while aligning procurements with DMA’s strategic goals of modernizing military communications infrastructure and enhancing operational training through digital media. Her portfolio is exclusively focused on professional and management development training services, supporting the workforce development needs of DoD media specialists, public affairs personnel, and instructional designers. Lackey collaborates with a diverse range of vendors specializing in instructional design, multimedia content development, and adult learning methodologies. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages firms with proven expertise in defense-aligned training programs, including those with experience in secure content delivery, LMS integration, and DoD-compliant curriculum development. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, task order flexibility, and vendor responsiveness to rapidly evolving media requirements across military installations. Her procurement strategy reflects a balanced commitment to socioeconomic programs, with 50% of her actions structured as Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5. She actively prioritizes small business participation, ensuring opportunities for service-disabled veteran-owned, woman-owned, and HUBZone firms within the training sector. This pattern underscores a deliberate effort to foster innovation and capacity-building among small, mission-aligned contractors while maintaining competition and quality. Lackey’s primary NAICS focus—611430, Professional and Management Development Training—reflects her specialization in designing and procuring customized learning solutions for DoD media professionals. She routinely acquires services including instructor-led training, e-learning platform development, competency-based curriculum design, and multimedia simulation tools tailored to military communication standards. Her technical expertise lies at the intersection of adult learning theory and defense media operations, ensuring training outcomes directly support operational readiness and information dominance.