Teresa Speck

Ms. Teresa Speck serves as a key contracting professional within the W6QK Acc-orlando office of the Department of the Army, where she oversees the acquisition of advanced engineering and technical services critical to modernizing military training systems. Her portfolio centers on the development and integration of live-fire simulation infrastructure, mission command technologies, and aviation and artillery training platforms. She plays a pivotal role in translating operational readiness requirements into competitively awarded contracts, ensuring alignment with Army modernization priorities and defense innovation initiatives. Ms. Speck routinely manages complex, performance-based acquisitions requiring deep technical expertise in systems engineering, modeling and simulation, and defense R&D services. She maintains consistent, long-term relationships with a core group of specialized contractors including TORCH RESEARCH, LLC, AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, and FIDELITY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION. These partnerships reflect a preference for firms with proven capabilities in defense systems engineering, rapid prototyping, and integrated training solutions. Her procurement approach emphasizes technical excellence, past performance, and proven delivery of high-fidelity training systems, fostering collaborative vendor relationships grounded in mission-critical outcomes rather than transactional exchanges. Ms. Speck’s contracting activity reflects a strict focus on full and open competition, with 100% of her awards issued under no set-aside categories. This underscores a strategic emphasis on selecting the most technically qualified providers regardless of socioeconomic designation, prioritizing capability and readiness impact over programmatic set-asides. While small business participation is not formally mandated in her portfolio, she remains compliant with all federal acquisition regulations and evaluates small business capabilities on merit when they meet technical requirements. Her primary procurement focus is squarely on NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services), encompassing systems engineering, technical analysis, simulation development, and defense technology integration. She procures advanced engineering solutions for training range modernization, digital twin environments, and mission command system upgrades, demonstrating deep domain expertise in military training infrastructure and next-generation operational readiness systems.