Stephanie Pajot

Stephanie Pajot serves as a key procurement professional within the U.S. Army Contracting Command – Detroit Arsenal (ACC-DTA), supporting the acquisition of critical ground combat systems and enabling technologies essential to modernizing Army tactical forces. She manages complex contracting actions for armored vehicles, small arms, and integrated ordnance systems, ensuring timely fielding of resilient, survivable platforms that enhance soldier lethality and battlefield mobility. Her work directly supports the agency’s strategic priorities in rapid prototyping and next-generation force modernization, aligning acquisitions with Army modernization doctrine and defense industrial base readiness. Pajot maintains established relationships with a core group of defense industrial partners, including BAE Systems Land & Armaments L.P., Bay Ship & Yacht Co., Murtech, Inc., Japan Marine United Corporation, and Professional Contract Services, Inc. These partnerships reflect a blend of prime defense contractors and specialized service providers, indicating a balanced approach to leveraging both large-scale industrial capacity and niche technical expertise. Her contracting patterns suggest a preference for established vendors with proven track records in military systems integration, shipbuilding support, and technical services, often under firm-fixed-price or cost-reimbursement structures. Her procurement portfolio is predominantly open competition, with 83.3% of awards issued without set-aside restrictions, reflecting a focus on mission-critical capability delivery over socioeconomic preferences. However, she consistently allocates 16.7% of awards to total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a measured commitment to small business participation without compromising operational urgency. Notably, her acquisitions are heavily concentrated in NAICS 712110 (Museums), which likely reflects administrative or facility-related support contracts for training or heritage preservation, alongside significant activity in commercial building construction (236220) and management consulting services (541611). This suggests a dual focus on sustaining infrastructure and organizational capacity alongside core combat system procurement, indicating broad operational support responsibilities within the agency’s mission envelope.