Shirley Pride

Shirley Pride serves as a key procurement professional within the W6QK Acc-rsa, a specialized unit of the Department of the Army focused on sustaining and modernizing aerial and missile defense systems. She manages the acquisition of mission-critical aerospace components and support services essential to the UH-60 Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache platforms, with a primary emphasis on avionics, propulsion subsystems, and sensor integration. Her work directly supports the Army’s strategic modernization goals by ensuring the reliability and interoperability of next-generation airborne systems. Pride handles full lifecycle contract actions—from market research and solicitation to award and administration—typically overseeing complex, technical procurements requiring stringent compliance with defense acquisition regulations. Her primary contractor relationships are with Lockheed Martin Corporation and Alaska Aerospace Corp, both of which provide high-assurance aerospace components and systems integration services. She engages these prime vendors on long-term, performance-based contracts that emphasize technical innovation, supply chain resilience, and sustainment support. These partnerships are characterized by deep technical collaboration, rigorous quality assurance protocols, and a focus on delivering mission-ready hardware under demanding operational timelines. Shirley Pride’s procurement portfolio reflects a 100% non-set-aside approach, with no use of 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic set-asides. This reflects a strategic prioritization of technical capability, operational readiness, and industrial base stability over socioeconomic preferences, consistent with the high-consequence nature of the systems being procured. While small business participation is not formally incentivized in her portfolio, vendor qualifications are evaluated strictly against technical merit and production capacity. Her procurement focus is entirely concentrated under NAICS 336413—Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing—covering precision-engineered components such as flight control actuators, radar warning receivers, missile guidance modules, and auxiliary power units. She possesses deep domain expertise in aerospace subsystems, with a proven track record of managing complex technical requirements for next-generation Army aviation platforms.