Nicholas Ventresca

Nicholas Ventresca serves as a key procurement professional within the W6QK Acc Wva, a mission-critical unit of the U.S. Army’s Watervliet Arsenal under the Department of Defense. He oversees the acquisition of specialized industrial and ordnance-related manufacturing services essential to sustaining the Army’s artillery and munitions systems. His responsibilities include managing complex contracts for precision metal fabrication, machine tool maintenance, and industrial heat treatment processes that directly support national defense readiness. Ventresca’s acquisitions are heavily focused on high-precision components and legacy equipment modernization, ensuring the continued operational capability of critical ordnance infrastructure. His primary contractor relationships include established industrial firms such as FINCANTIERI MARINE REPAIR LLC, MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC, and RDC JPA ARCHITECTURE, L.L.L.P., reflecting a reliance on experienced vendors with proven capabilities in heavy manufacturing, facility upgrades, and specialized tooling. These partnerships are characterized by long-term, performance-based engagements that prioritize technical fidelity, regulatory compliance, and mission-critical delivery timelines. Ventresca consistently engages contractors with deep expertise in metallurgical processes and defense-grade industrial systems. Set-aside preferences are overwhelmingly weighted toward unrestricted competition, with 91.7% of awards issued without socioeconomic set-asides, indicating a procurement strategy prioritizing technical capability and industrial capacity over socioeconomic classifications. Only 8.3% of awards are designated as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, suggesting a selective, capability-driven approach to small business participation rather than broad socioeconomic mandates. Ventresca’s procurement portfolio is concentrated in NAICS 332111 (Iron and Steel Forging), 332811 (Metal Heat Treating), 333517 (Machine Tool Manufacturing), and 333994 (Industrial Process Furnace and Oven Manufacturing), reflecting a deep technical focus on the production and maintenance of hardened metal components, precision dies, and thermal processing systems. His expertise lies in acquiring mission-critical industrial equipment and services that underpin the Army’s ordnance sustainment and modernization lifecycle.