Settima M. Harton

Settima M. Harton serves as a Contract Specialist within the Department of the Air Force’s FA7014 office, responsible for managing the full lifecycle of professional services acquisitions aligned with the Air Force’s mission to sustain and modernize operational readiness. Her portfolio centers on securing specialized technical support, particularly in systems engineering and technical assistance (SETA), enterprise IT modernization, and mission-critical analytics. She executes complex procurements under FAR and DFARS guidelines, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition standards while aligning contract vehicles with strategic Air Force priorities. Harton’s work directly enables the agency’s transition to agile, secure, and scalable digital infrastructure through targeted contracting actions. Harton maintains long-standing, high-trust relationships with key contractors including SIGMATECH, INC. and PURDUE UNIVERSITY, both of which provide advanced technical expertise in custom software development and systems integration. These partnerships reflect a preference for established, high-capacity providers with proven capabilities in delivering mission-critical IT solutions. Her contracting patterns emphasize performance-based outcomes, rigorous technical evaluation, and sustained vendor collaboration to meet evolving operational demands, often utilizing Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) and Other Transaction Authority (OTA) mechanisms where appropriate. Harton’s procurement activity reflects a strong emphasis on open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted without socioeconomic set-asides. While she does not prioritize 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides, her approach ensures full and open competition to achieve the highest technical merit and mission alignment, consistent with the Air Force’s need for rapid, scalable, and secure technical solutions. Her primary procurement focus is exclusively under NAICS 541511 (Custom Computer Programming Services), reflecting deep specialization in bespoke software development, cybersecurity-enabled applications, and data analytics platforms. She consistently procures services that support real-time decision-making, cloud-native architectures, and secure enterprise systems, demonstrating expertise in the technical domains of defense IT modernization and mission-critical software engineering.