Shelly Brayboy

Shelly Brayboy serves as a key procurement professional within the Defense Logistics Agency’s Energy Directorate (SPE605), responsible for managing strategic acquisitions of petroleum-based fuels and related energy logistics services critical to sustaining global military readiness. Her work directly supports DLA Energy’s mission to ensure uninterrupted fuel supply chains across all branches of the U.S. armed forces, with a focus on contract execution for refined petroleum products, bulk fuel distribution, and energy infrastructure support. She handles complex, mission-critical acquisitions under FAR Part 13 and Part 15, often involving long-term performance-based contracts with stringent quality, safety, and delivery requirements. Brayboy maintains strong working relationships with a network of qualified energy suppliers, including petroleum refiners and merchant wholesalers specializing in bulk fuel handling and transportation logistics. Her procurement approach emphasizes vendor reliability, regulatory compliance, and supply chain resilience, fostering partnerships with firms capable of meeting Department of Defense standards for fuel purity, storage, and just-in-time delivery under austere conditions. She consistently engages contractors with proven operational capacity in military theater support environments. Her contracting patterns reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 85% of awards issued without set-aside restrictions. However, she actively promotes small business participation, allocating approximately 15% of opportunities to total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a deliberate effort to expand vendor diversity within the energy supply base without compromising mission requirements. Brayboy’s primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 324110 (Petroleum Refineries) and 424720 (Petroleum and Petroleum Products Merchant Wholesalers), reflecting deep expertise in the procurement of refined jet fuel, diesel, and gasoline, as well as the logistical networks that deliver them to forward operating locations. Her technical domain encompasses fuel specification compliance, transportation risk mitigation, and supply chain continuity planning under contingency conditions.