Tricia A. Weis

Tricia A. Weis serves as a Contracting Specialist at U.S. Transportation Command (USTransCom), where she plays a pivotal role in executing the Department of Defense’s global mobility mission through the acquisition of critical logistics and transportation services. She manages full lifecycle procurement actions for inland water freight transportation, ensuring the timely and efficient movement of military personnel, equipment, and sustainment supplies across strategic waterways. Her acquisitions support expeditionary logistics, port operations, and rapid deployment capabilities essential to theater access and force projection, aligning closely with USTransCom’s mission to maintain seamless, multi-domain mobility. Weis maintains consistent contracting relationships with specialized aviation and water transport contractors, including UNCOMN LLC, PHOENIX AIR GROUP, INC., RAMPART AVIATION, LLC, FANCIULLI EGISTO S.R.L., and MOUNTAIN AVIATION, LLC. These partnerships reflect a focus on niche providers capable of delivering specialized cargo transport, expeditionary port support, and global freight movement under austere conditions. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, risk mitigation, and operational readiness, fostering long-term vendor collaboration grounded in reliability and mission alignment. Weis’s procurement portfolio reflects a 100% no set-aside preference, indicating a strategic focus on open competition to ensure access to the broadest range of qualified vendors capable of meeting complex global mobility requirements. While she does not prioritize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, her contracting decisions are driven by capability, capacity, and mission necessity rather than socioeconomic criteria. Her primary NAICS specialization is 483211 (Inland Water Freight Transportation), underscoring deep expertise in procuring barge, tug, and riverine transport services critical to theater sustainment. She routinely acquires specialized maritime logistics solutions, including port terminal support, cargo handling, and intermodal coordination, demonstrating technical proficiency in waterborne logistics systems essential to DoD’s global supply chain.