Monica Alderette

Monica Alderette serves as a key procurement professional within the Department of the Air Force’s FA4610 30 Cons Pk facility, supporting the Space Systems Command’s mission to sustain critical infrastructure at Vandenberg Space Force Base. She manages acquisitions focused on site preparation and facility resilience, ensuring that launch and test sites remain operationally ready for national security space missions. Her work directly enables the modernization and maintenance of utilities, security systems, and ground support infrastructure essential to space launch operations. Alderette handles a high volume of firm-fixed-price and performance-based contracts under the Federal Acquisition Regulation, prioritizing timely delivery of mission-critical site development services. She maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of specialized contractors, including MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC, DIVERSE PEST MANAGEMENT, TECH O. R., LLC, KING FREIGHT LLC, and DARBONNIER TACTICAL SUPPLY LLC. These partnerships reflect a focus on niche, mission-aligned vendors capable of delivering complex site grading, earthwork, environmental compliance, logistics support, and tactical supply chain services under demanding operational conditions. Her procurement approach emphasizes reliability, compliance, and performance accountability, fostering long-term vendor collaboration grounded in technical specificity and mission urgency. Alderette’s contracting portfolio is entirely set aside for small businesses under FAR 19.5, reflecting a full commitment to small business participation without exception. This 100% small business set-aside strategy ensures that contracting opportunities directly support the growth of small, capable firms with proven expertise in defense-critical infrastructure support. Her pattern of awarding exclusively to small business contractors underscores a deliberate policy to cultivate a resilient, geographically diverse vendor base aligned with national security needs. Her procurement focus is exclusively centered on NAICS 238910, Site Preparation Contractors, encompassing earthmoving, land clearing, grading, drainage, and site stabilization services essential to maintaining launch pad integrity and operational safety. She specializes in acquiring technically complex, geotechnically sensitive site development work tailored to the unique environmental and security demands of space launch facilities, demonstrating deep domain expertise in defense infrastructure lifecycle support.