Pa'Shonna Rich

Pa’Shonna Rich serves as a key procurement professional within the 11th Contracting Squadron, Department of the Air Force, where she supports mission-critical acquisitions that sustain ceremonial operations, morale-enhancing services, and base infrastructure capabilities. Her work directly enables the operational readiness and quality-of-life standards for Air Force personnel by managing contracts for specialized facilities support, entertainment systems, and mission-enabling equipment. Rich focuses on acquiring services and hardware that enhance public engagement, band operations, and daily base functionality, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations while aligning purchases with strategic Air Force priorities in modernization and sustainment. She maintains consistent working relationships with a select group of trusted contractors, including Boh Environmental, L.L.C., ADVANTOR SYSTEMS CORPORATION, and LORTON STONE, LLC, each of which provides niche capabilities in environmental compliance, technical systems integration, and facility maintenance. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with proven expertise in delivering tailored, high-integrity solutions under stringent military operational standards. Her contracting approach emphasizes reliability, responsiveness, and technical alignment with the unique needs of ceremonial and support units. Rich demonstrates an unwavering commitment to small business participation, with 100% of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to maximize economic opportunity for small firms while ensuring access to agile, specialized capabilities essential to the squadron’s mission. Her contracting patterns consistently prioritize socioeconomic diversity, fostering long-term vendor development within the defense support ecosystem. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 561621 (Security Systems Services) and 811310 (Commercial and Industrial Machinery Repair and Maintenance), indicating deep expertise in physical security infrastructure and the upkeep of non-automotive industrial equipment. She regularly acquires surveillance systems, access control technologies, and maintenance services for ceremonial and support facilities, demonstrating technical fluency in both cybersecurity-adjacent physical security and heavy equipment lifecycle management.