Sara Delgado

Sara Delgado serves as a key procurement lead within the FA9401 377 Msg Pk unit of the Department of the Air Force, where she manages the acquisition of mission-critical aerospace and defense systems. Her responsibilities center on securing advanced instrumentation, industrial machinery, and specialized support services essential to sustaining air force operational readiness. She oversees contracts for sensor systems, electronic warfare components, secure communications infrastructure, and laboratory-grade analytical equipment, ensuring alignment with strategic modernization goals. Her work directly supports the agency’s mission to enhance and maintain high-performance air and space capabilities through timely, compliant, and technically rigorous acquisition processes. Delgado maintains consistent partnerships with a select group of contractors including J STAR ENTERPRISES INC, LARON, LLC, FIVEBYFIVE, LLC, VISION DISTRIBUTORS LLC, and Boh Environmental, L.L.C. These vendors are frequently engaged for their expertise in industrial equipment maintenance, fluid power systems, and specialized machinery fabrication. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for established small business partners with proven technical capabilities in niche defense support domains, fostering long-term vendor relationships built on reliability, compliance, and responsive service delivery. A strong advocate for small business participation, Delgado consistently structures procurements under the Total Small Business Set-Aside authority (FAR 19.5), with approximately two-thirds of her awards designated for small businesses. This reflects a deliberate strategy to expand the defense industrial base and leverage the agility and innovation of small firms. Her contracting patterns show minimal use of set-asides for specific socioeconomic categories like 8(a) or HUBZone, instead favoring broad small business eligibility under the general small business set-aside framework. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 811310 (industrial machinery repair and maintenance), 333924 (industrial truck and material handling equipment manufacturing), and 333996 (fluid power pump and motor manufacturing). These categories underscore her technical expertise in procuring robust, field-deployable mechanical and electro-mechanical systems critical to air force logistics, maintenance, and operational support environments.