Terri Suppa-Velten

Terri Suppa-Velten serves as a Production Management Specialist responsible for overseeing the acquisition and lifecycle management of specialized aircraft components and auxiliary equipment. In this role, she ensures that procurement activities align with operational readiness requirements, coordinating closely with engineering, logistics, and quality assurance teams to validate technical specifications and delivery timelines. Her acquisitions focus exclusively on manufacturing and supply chain activities within the aerospace sector, particularly for non-airframe subsystems critical to aircraft performance and safety. She plays a pivotal role in translating mission needs into solicitation requirements, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations and technical standards. Terri collaborates with a broad network of manufacturers and subsystem suppliers, primarily those with expertise in precision machining, avionics integration, and flight-critical component fabrication. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she maintains consistent working relationships with firms capable of meeting stringent military and aerospace quality standards, including AS9100 certification. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting, technical evaluations, and supplier capability assessments to ensure reliability and traceability across the supply chain. Her contracting activity reflects a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted without set-aside designations. This indicates a focus on technical merit and industrial capacity over socioeconomic categorizations, prioritizing mission-critical outcomes and supply chain resilience. While she does not routinely utilize 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, her process remains fully compliant with all small business participation goals through unrestricted, merit-based evaluations. Terri’s procurement expertise is concentrated in NAICS 336413—Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing—encompassing everything from hydraulic actuators and flight control components to sensor housings and auxiliary power units. She possesses deep technical fluency in aerospace manufacturing processes, including CNC fabrication, non-destructive testing, and FAA/EASA compliance pathways, making her a key liaison between acquisition and engineering domains.