TaLisa M. Spottswood

TaLisa M. Spottswood serves as Contractor Support for the Department of the Air Force under FA7014, playing a critical role in enabling mission-critical acquisitions that sustain and modernize Air Force operational readiness. She facilitates the procurement of professional services and technical support essential to systems engineering, cybersecurity infrastructure, and enterprise IT modernization. Her responsibilities include managing the end-to-end contracting lifecycle for complex, high-priority requirements, ensuring alignment with Department of Defense acquisition policies and regulatory compliance. She routinely handles task orders and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts under the broader umbrella of administrative, management, and technical consulting services. Spottswood maintains strong, sustained relationships with key contractors including SIGMATECH, INC. and PURDUE UNIVERSITY, reflecting a preference for partners with deep expertise in defense-oriented technical assistance and research-driven solutions. Her working model emphasizes long-term vendor collaboration, particularly with organizations capable of delivering integrated SETA support and advanced analytics. These partnerships are characterized by consistent recompetition and performance-based tasking, ensuring sustained technical excellence and mission adaptability. Her procurement strategy reflects a robust commitment to socioeconomic diversity, with 66.7% of her acquisitions set aside for total small businesses under FAR 19.5. This consistent emphasis on small business participation underscores her dedication to expanding market access for qualified small entities, fostering innovation and competition within the defense technical services sector. While no other specific set-asides are predominant, her portfolio actively prioritizes small business eligibility and compliance throughout the solicitation and award phases. Spottswood’s procurement focus is exclusively aligned with NAICS 423430, which encompasses computer and computer peripheral equipment and software merchant wholesalers. This specialization indicates her primary involvement in procuring commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software, hardware systems, and integrated IT solutions that underpin Air Force digital transformation initiatives. Her domain expertise centers on enterprise-level IT modernization, cybersecurity tooling, and mission-support software platforms essential to maintaining air domain superiority.