Cathy Contreras is the senior acquisition executive for Defense Logistics Agency Weapons Support.
DLA Weapons Support is the aviation, land and maritime demand and supply chain manager for DLA with more than 7,200 civilian and military personnel at 54 locations worldwide. Established Oct. 1, 2025, the major subordinate command (MSC) replaced the former DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime MSCs with a single unified organization, leveraging expertise in both Richmond, Virginia, and Columbus, Ohio. DLA Weapons Support manages more than 4,300 major weapon systems and is the U.S. military integrated material manager for more than 2.4 million national stock number items, industrial retail supply and deport-level reparable acquisitions, with annual sales exceeding $9.385 billion in FY25.
As the senior acquisition executive for DLA Weapons Support, Ms. Contreras shares full managerial responsibility for all supply chain acquisition operations across the MSC. She is engaged in the full range of logistics and acquisition planning, life-cycle management, and mission management of worldwide aviation, land and maritime items. Ms. Contreras assumed her role at Aviation in 2016.
Ms. Contreras has experience serving in a wide variety of positions within the War Department and DLA. Her previous assignments include leading both the Information Technology and Telecommunications Divisions of Defense Contracting Command at the Pentagon, and Chief of Strategic Contracting, Chief of the Strategic Material Sourcing Group, Chief of Procurement Systems and Policy, Chief of Supplier Relationship Management, and Director of Strategic Acquisition Programs, all at DLA.
Ms. Contreras graduated from James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia. with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration. She graduated from Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland. with a master’s in business administration; and earned a master’s in National Resource Strategy from National Defense University, Washington, District of Columbia.