Tara D'Amico

Tara D’Amico serves as a key procurement lead within the W6QM MICC-West Point, supporting the United States Military Academy’s mission to sustain a technologically advanced cadet environment. She manages the acquisition of critical computing infrastructure, analytical instrumentation, and specialized maintenance services essential to military education and training systems. Her portfolio emphasizes mission-critical technology procurement that ensures operational readiness, data integrity, and institutional resilience across West Point’s academic and laboratory environments. D’Amico routinely oversees complex contracts requiring compliance with defense-specific technical standards and cybersecurity protocols. She maintains consistent working relationships with Government Acquisitions Inc. and Northwestern Corp., both of which provide high-value technical support, equipment repair, and systems integration services. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with proven expertise in maintaining sensitive military-grade hardware and software ecosystems. D’Amico’s contracting approach prioritizes reliability, long-term service-level agreements, and vendor responsiveness to mission-critical outages, fostering stable, performance-based vendor relationships grounded in operational necessity rather than transactional procurement. Her procurement strategy is heavily aligned with small business participation, with 84.1% of awards structured under total small business set-asides in accordance with FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate commitment to empowering small, disadvantaged, and service-disabled veteran-owned firms that bring niche technical capabilities to the Army’s educational infrastructure. She actively leverages socioeconomic programs to expand the vendor base while ensuring compliance with federal small business goals. D’Amico’s primary NAICS focus areas include Electronic Computer Manufacturing (334111), Computing Infrastructure Providers (518210), and Software Publishers (513210), underscoring her specialization in procurement of hardware, data hosting, and custom educational software systems. She also manages maintenance contracts under Commercial and Industrial Machinery Repair (811310), demonstrating expertise in sustaining legacy and modernized systems within a constrained, high-availability military environment. Her technical domain spans cybersecurity-enabled computing platforms, laboratory instrumentation, and mission-critical IT services essential to West Point’s academic and operational mission.