Julia Gallmon

Wanda J. Armwood serves as a Contracting Officer at the Securities and Exchange Commission, where she plays a pivotal role in acquiring mission-critical professional and technical services that support the agency’s regulatory oversight and market surveillance functions. She manages a diverse portfolio of acquisitions focused on data analytics, financial systems modernization, and cybersecurity-enabled compliance tools, ensuring that procurement activities align with the SEC’s mandate to protect investors and maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets. Her work directly enables the agency’s ability to detect fraud, analyze market trends, and enforce federal securities laws through advanced technological capabilities. Armwood maintains longstanding relationships with leading federal contractors including General Dynamics Information Technology, Booz Allen Hamilton, Maximus Federal Consulting, Team GreenZone JV, and Procentrix, LLC. These partnerships are primarily centered on high-complexity, mission-support services such as data engineering, regulatory technology development, and forensic financial analysis. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, rigorous requirements definition, and long-term vendor collaboration to ensure sustained operational readiness and technical innovation. Notably, Armwood’s procurement portfolio reflects a 100% no set-aside preference, indicating a focus on full and open competition to secure the highest-caliber expertise available in the marketplace. While she does not prioritize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, her contracting decisions are driven by technical merit, vendor capability, and mission alignment rather than socioeconomic criteria. Her primary NAICS classification focus is 541110—Offices of Lawyers—reflecting a significant emphasis on legal advisory services, regulatory compliance support, and securities law expertise. This specialization underscores the SEC’s need for deep legal acumen to interpret complex financial regulations, support enforcement actions, and provide counsel on emerging market structures and digital asset frameworks. Armwood’s expertise lies in aligning legal procurement with the agency’s evolving regulatory priorities in an increasingly digital financial ecosystem.