Tamara Horton

Tamara Horton serves as a Contract Specialist at the Mid Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center, a Department of the Navy facility responsible for sustaining and modernizing naval surface platforms. In this role, she manages the full lifecycle of procurement actions for critical shipbuilding and repair components, ensuring alignment with naval readiness objectives. Her responsibilities include soliciting, evaluating, and awarding contracts for structural metal systems, mechanical subsystems, and industrial support services essential to vessel integrity and operational functionality. She works closely with technical stakeholders and industrial partners to execute complex acquisitions under federal acquisition regulations, with a focus on maintaining mission-critical fleet capabilities through timely and compliant contracting. Horton maintains established relationships with key industrial contractors including Fairlead Boatworks, Inc., General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc., Howard W. Pence, Inc., and Kampi Components Co., Inc., all of whom provide specialized ship repair, maintenance, and component manufacturing services. Her contracting patterns reflect long-term, performance-based partnerships with vendors possessing proven expertise in naval surface platform support, often involving technical specifications tied to Navy engineering standards and quality assurance protocols. These relationships are built on consistent delivery of mission-essential goods and services under fixed-price and cost-reimbursement contract types. A defining feature of Horton’s procurement strategy is her exclusive use of Total Small Business Set-Aside authorities under FAR 19.5, ensuring that 100% of her acquisitions are reserved for small businesses. This reflects a strong institutional commitment to socioeconomic diversity and the empowerment of small, qualified vendors within the naval industrial base. Her approach prioritizes equitable access for small businesses capable of meeting stringent defense manufacturing and repair requirements. Her procurement portfolio is entirely focused on NAICS 336611 — Ship Building and Repairing — encompassing the acquisition of fabricated metal structures, propulsion subsystems, hull components, and repair services for naval vessels. Horton’s technical expertise lies in understanding complex naval engineering requirements and translating them into enforceable contract deliverables that support fleet sustainment and modernization.