Theresa Boutchyard

Theresa Boutchyard serves as a Senior Contract Specialist at DLA Land at Aberdeen, where she plays a pivotal role in securing mission-critical electronic, communications, and electro-mechanical systems essential to land-based defense platforms. Her responsibilities encompass the full lifecycle of contract actions—from market research and solicitation development to award and administration—for advanced signal processing components, avionics, radio and data transmission equipment, and power control systems that enable military command, control, and tactical operations. She ensures compliance with federal acquisition regulations while aligning procurements with DLA’s strategic imperatives to modernize and sustain critical defense infrastructure. Theresa maintains consistent, high-volume contracting relationships with key industry partners including Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, Carson Industries, Inc., and Creating Technology Solutions, LLC. These vendors are recognized for their technical proficiency in manufacturing and integrating specialized fiber optic and electro-optical systems. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting, technical validation, and long-term vendor collaboration to ensure reliability and interoperability across deployed military systems. Theresa’s contracting portfolio reflects a 100% preference for open, unrestricted competitions with no set-asides for 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic programs. This reflects a mission-driven focus on technical capability and supply chain resilience over socioeconomic categorization, prioritizing performance, delivery timelines, and system compatibility above programmatic set-aside requirements. Her primary procurement focus is exclusively under NAICS 335921 (Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing), indicating deep specialization in the acquisition of high-performance optical cabling, signal transmission hardware, and related electro-optical subsystems. She possesses expert knowledge of MIL-STD and commercial fiber optic standards, and her contracts routinely support the integration of ruggedized, encrypted data links for battlefield communications and sensor networks.