Nefertiti Winters

Nefertiti Winters serves as Chief of Contracting for the Headquarters Defense Media Activity (HQ DMA), overseeing the full lifecycle of procurement activities critical to the agency’s mission of delivering strategic multimedia content to U.S. military personnel and global audiences. In this leadership role, she directs the acquisition of broadcast infrastructure, digital content delivery systems, and postproduction services that enable secure, scalable media operations across terrestrial, satellite, and online platforms. Her portfolio encompasses complex, mission-critical contracts requiring compliance with DoD cybersecurity standards and interoperability with joint service communication networks, ensuring that media outputs remain resilient, timely, and operationally aligned with defense communication objectives. While no specific contractor relationships are currently identified in the data, Winters engages with a diverse ecosystem of vendors specializing in technical media production and facility systems integration. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting, leveraging task orders and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) mechanisms to ensure agile responses to evolving operational demands. She fosters long-term vendor partnerships grounded in quality assurance, rapid turnaround, and adherence to classified content handling protocols, ensuring seamless coordination between creative teams and technical service providers. Winters maintains a strict focus on open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted without set-asides, reflecting a preference for full and open procurement under FAR Part 6. This approach prioritizes technical capability and mission readiness over socioeconomic preferences, aligning with HQ DMA’s need for specialized, high-performance solutions that may not be available through small business channels. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 238220 for HVAC and facility systems supporting broadcast studios and NAICS 512191 for teleproduction and postproduction services. These categories reflect her expertise in procuring studio construction, editing suites, content management systems, and broadcast transmission infrastructure—domains requiring deep technical knowledge of media engineering, signal integrity, and DoD-compliant digital asset workflows.