Peter S. Barone

Peter S. Barone serves as a key procurement lead within the W074 Endist Jacksonville office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, overseeing civil infrastructure and environmental engineering acquisitions critical to military readiness across Florida’s waterways. His responsibilities include managing the full lifecycle of contracts for dredging, shoreline stabilization, flood control systems, and ecosystem restoration projects, ensuring alignment with federal engineering standards and environmental compliance. Barone’s portfolio centers on complex hydraulic and civil works procurements that support both operational infrastructure and long-term ecological resilience, requiring deep technical coordination with engineering teams and environmental regulators. Barone maintains consistent partnerships with industry leaders such as FINCANTIERI MARINE REPAIR LLC, GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK CO, WEEKS MARINE, INC., MANSON CONSTRUCTION CO, and MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC. These relationships reflect a preference for experienced, marine-focused contractors with proven capabilities in heavy civil construction, dredging operations, and coastal engineering. His contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, leveraging long-term vendor relationships to ensure technical reliability and mission continuity across multi-year project cycles. A strong advocate for small business inclusion, Barone prioritizes Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, directing 75% of his acquisitions to small businesses. This reflects a deliberate strategy to foster local economic development and increase competition among qualified firms capable of executing specialized civil works tasks. His contracting patterns consistently favor small business participation, aligning with DoD mandates to enhance resilience and innovation through diverse vendor engagement. Despite the agency’s mission focus on water infrastructure, Barone’s procurement activity is statistically concentrated in NAICS 337211 (Wood Office Furniture Manufacturing) and 333995 (Fluid Power Cylinder and Actuator Manufacturing), suggesting potential data misclassification or ancillary procurement of specialized components for equipment maintenance and facility operations. His technical expertise remains rooted in hydraulic systems and civil works, with procurement patterns indicating a need to reconcile data anomalies while maintaining mission-critical project delivery.