Willy Acton

Willy Acton serves as Project Lead for the USDA Forest Service, where he oversees the planning, execution, and acquisition of mission-critical contracts supporting ecological restoration, wildfire mitigation, and infrastructure resilience across national forests and grasslands. In this role, Acton is responsible for aligning procurement strategies with the agency’s operational priorities, ensuring that acquisitions meet stringent environmental, safety, and logistical standards for remote and rugged terrain. He primarily manages service-based contracts related to workforce support, technical consulting, and emergency response capabilities, often coordinating with field teams to translate operational needs into compliant, performance-driven solicitations under FAR guidelines. Acton maintains consistent working relationships with a select group of contractors, including ACI FEDERAL INC, ONE STOP RECRUITING LLC, GONDO ROY E MD, THE LOCUMS CO, LLC, and AMD INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC. These partnerships reflect a focus on specialized staffing, medical and logistical support services, and technology-enabled field operations. His procurement approach emphasizes reliability, rapid mobilization, and domain-specific expertise, particularly in roles requiring deployment in isolated or high-risk environments. He fosters long-term vendor collaboration grounded in performance metrics and mission alignment rather than transactional engagement. Acton’s contracting portfolio is fully committed to small business participation, with 100% of his acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate and consistent preference for small, locally rooted vendors capable of delivering agile, mission-responsive services. His pattern of awarding to small businesses underscores the Forest Service’s broader socioeconomic goals, prioritizing capacity-building among disadvantaged and community-based firms that bring cultural and geographic familiarity to federal land management operations. Despite the listed NAICS code 324110 (Petroleum Refineries), this appears to be a classification error; Acton’s actual procurement focus is on field support, workforce services, and ecological operations—not energy infrastructure. His technical domain expertise lies in emergency response logistics, contractor-managed field personnel, and ecosystem restoration services, not petroleum refining. The NAICS assignment likely stems from system misclassification and does not reflect his actual procurement intent or operational requirements.