Sharon Johnson-Harper

Sharon Johnson-Harper serves as a key procurement lead within the Virginia Contracting Activity, operating under the Defense Intelligence Agency to support mission-critical intelligence capabilities. She manages acquisitions for advanced technical services essential to national security, with a focus on custom software development, systems design, and specialized electrical infrastructure for classified environments. Her work directly enables real-time data exploitation, missile systems analysis, and secure operational support, ensuring the agency’s technical infrastructure meets the highest standards of performance and confidentiality. She oversees the full lifecycle of contract actions—from requirements definition to award and administration—ensuring alignment with DoD intelligence priorities and cybersecurity compliance frameworks. Johnson-Harper cultivates strategic partnerships with a diverse pool of vendors, prioritizing local and small business participation. While specific contractor names are not publicly disclosed, her procurement patterns reflect consistent engagement with firms capable of delivering secure, tailored solutions in engineering and software development. She fosters collaborative relationships with vendors who demonstrate proven expertise in handling classified systems and rapid prototyping for intelligence applications, emphasizing agility, compliance, and technical fidelity in vendor selection. Her contracting approach is heavily oriented toward socioeconomic inclusion, with nearly two-thirds of her acquisitions designated as Local Area Set-Asides under FAR 26.2 and one-third reserved for total small business participation under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to stimulate regional economic growth while ensuring access to specialized, agile talent capable of supporting time-sensitive intelligence missions. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 238210 for electrical and wiring installation services supporting secure facility infrastructure, and NAICS 541511 for custom computer programming services enabling intelligence analytics platforms. She consistently seeks vendors with expertise in embedded systems, secure coding practices, and real-time data processing architectures, ensuring that all acquisitions align with the Defense Intelligence Agency’s mission to deliver actionable intelligence through cutting-edge, hardened technical solutions.