Zaria Gibson

Zaria Gibson serves as a key procurement professional within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ W07V Endist Vicksburg office, supporting the Department of the Army’s mission to deliver civil infrastructure resilience and military engineering solutions across the Mississippi River basin. She manages the acquisition of professional, scientific, and technical services essential to the design, construction, and maintenance of flood control systems, navigation channels, levees, and dredging operations. Her portfolio centers on complex engineering support contracts requiring specialized environmental, hydrologic, and geotechnical expertise, ensuring compliance with federal standards and long-term operational sustainability. Gibson maintains consistent working relationships with a select group of high-capacity contractors, including MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC, BAIRD-STANTEC JOINT VENTURE, ARCADIS U.S., INC., SOL-MERRICK JOINT VENTURE II, LLC, and LINFIELD, HUNTER & JUNIUS, INC. These partnerships reflect a preference for joint ventures and established firms with proven experience in water resource engineering, environmental consulting, and large-scale civil works. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting, technical rigor, and contractor accountability to meet mission-critical infrastructure timelines. A defining feature of Gibson’s contracting strategy is her exclusive focus on Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) set-asides, with 100% of her procurements reserved for this socioeconomic category. This reflects a deliberate and sustained commitment to advancing gender equity in federal contracting and empowering WOSB firms with the technical capacity to deliver complex engineering services. Her portfolio consistently channels opportunities to qualified WOSB entities capable of meeting stringent federal engineering standards. Her acquisitions are entirely classified under NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing environmental impact assessments, hydraulic modeling, geospatial analysis, and construction management support. This specialization underscores her deep expertise in non-construction technical services critical to the planning, permitting, and lifecycle management of civil works projects within sensitive aquatic ecosystems.