Marla Kersey

Marla Kersey serves as a key procurement professional within the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s FA8517 PZAAC office, responsible for managing high-stakes acquisitions of precision aerospace components critical to Air Force platform readiness. Her portfolio centers on the sustainment and modernization of mission-critical systems including ejection seats, flight control instrumentation, and electrical signaling devices. She executes complex contract actions under FAR and DFARS guidelines, ensuring technical compliance and operational reliability for avionics and sensor systems used across legacy and next-generation aircraft platforms. Her work directly supports the Air Force’s strategic imperative to maintain air superiority through reliable, high-integrity component supply chains. Kersey maintains a longstanding and exclusive partnership with BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc., the primary contractor for advanced electronic instrumentation and control systems. Her contracting approach emphasizes deep technical collaboration with this prime vendor, leveraging their specialized manufacturing capabilities in aerospace-grade circuitry and embedded systems. While she engages primarily with large defense integrators, her procurement strategy prioritizes performance, traceability, and long-term support over vendor diversity, reflecting the high-risk, low-replacement nature of the systems she procures. Kersey’s contracting portfolio reflects a 100% non-set-aside approach, with no utilization of 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic programs. This reflects the highly specialized, technologically sensitive nature of the components she acquires, which require certified aerospace manufacturing environments, stringent quality controls, and ITAR-compliant supply chains that are currently concentrated among a limited number of large defense contractors with appropriate clearances and certifications. Her primary focus lies in NAICS 334515 for instrument manufacturing related to electrical signal measurement and NAICS 334519 for other precision measuring and controlling devices. She procures high-reliability avionics, flight data sensors, telemetry interfaces, and embedded control modules used in aircraft safety and mission systems. Her expertise lies in the intersection of electronic instrumentation and aerospace systems integration, ensuring components meet MIL-STD and DO-160 standards for operational environments.