Roger Staats

Roger Staats serves as Program Manager for the USDA Forest Service, where he leads the planning, execution, and oversight of mission-critical acquisitions supporting forest health, wildfire response, and operational resilience across remote federal lands. His role centers on ensuring timely procurement of specialized services and logistics solutions that enable field operations, emergency deployments, and ecological restoration efforts. Staats manages a portfolio of non-standard, mission-essential contracts requiring rapid mobilization and technical expertise in austere environments, often coordinating with federal, state, and private partners to sustain operational readiness in high-risk terrain. Staats maintains consistent working relationships with a select group of specialized contractors, including ACI FEDERAL INC, ONE STOP RECRUITING LLC, GONDO ROY E MD, THE LOCUMS CO, LLC, and AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC. These partnerships reflect a focus on niche service providers offering aviation logistics, personnel staffing, medical support, and technology integration tailored to the unique demands of wildland firefighting and remote field operations. His procurement approach emphasizes reliability, rapid response capability, and domain-specific expertise over broad-market competition. Staats’ contracting activity shows a 100% preference for non-set-aside awards, indicating a strategic focus on open competition to secure the most capable and immediately available resources. There is no evidence of targeted socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs in his recent portfolio, suggesting a prioritization of operational urgency and specialized capability over socioeconomic criteria in this context. His procurement activity is exclusively aligned with NAICS 481211 — Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation — underscoring a deep specialization in air mobility services critical to firefighting crews, medical evacuations, and resource transport in inaccessible regions. This reflects technical expertise in aviation logistics, charter coordination, and emergency air support systems essential to the Forest Service’s mission in rugged, fire-prone landscapes.