Scottina Malia

Scottina Malia serves as the primary contracting lead for the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation at Ogden (SPRHA4), where she oversees the acquisition of mission-critical aviation components essential to sustaining U.S. military aircraft readiness. Her portfolio centers on procuring high-reliability subsystems for legacy and modern platforms, including the F-16 and KC-46, with a focus on propulsion, avionics, power distribution, and airframe systems. She manages complex sole-source and competitive acquisitions under FAR Part 13 and Part 15, ensuring compliance with defense logistics standards and rapid turnaround for time-sensitive operational needs. Her work directly supports the agency’s mission to maintain aircraft availability through strategic sourcing of specialized, often non-commercial, aviation parts. Malia maintains long-standing relationships with tier-one defense aerospace contractors including Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. Aviation Group, Raytheon Company, Honeywell International, Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, and Meggitt Safety Systems Inc. These partnerships reflect a reliance on established vendors with proven technical capabilities in military-grade components, particularly for proprietary or engineering-sensitive systems. Her contracting approach prioritizes technical validation, supply chain resilience, and performance-based specifications, often leveraging existing indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts and blanket purchase agreements to streamline procurement cycles. Her contracting activity shows a strong preference for unrestricted competition, with 90.2% of awards issued without set-aside designations. While small business participation remains modest at 9.8%, it is primarily channeled through Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, indicating a deliberate but limited emphasis on socioeconomic programs, with no significant use of 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides. Malia’s procurement focus is concentrated in NAICS 334412 (bare printed circuit board manufacturing) and 336413 (other aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing), reflecting deep technical expertise in avionics hardware, electrical wiring systems, and flight-critical components. She routinely sources specialized items such as motor-generators, current-carrying wiring devices, and precision control instrumentation, demonstrating advanced familiarity with military aviation technical standards and lifecycle sustainment requirements.