Darbi Dillon

Darbi S. Dillon is a Deputy Director in the Office of the Senior Procurement Executive, Department of Transportation. She is responsible for the departmental acquisition business systems, acquisition and financial assistance policy, business strategy, and oversight across the Department of Transportation’s nine operating administrations with a 2017 $6.2B acquisition spend, $51.5B in financial assistance awards, and a $200 million purchase card program.

Prior to this assignment, Darbi was selected by the Executive Office of the President as one of 16 fellows from across the federal government into the White House Leadership Development Program, supporting The Office of Management and Budget/Office of Federal Procurement Policy in definition and execution of the President’s Cross-Agency Priority Goals to institutionalize Category Management–the successor to the Federal Strategic Sourcing initiative.

From 2014 to 2015, Darbi served as the Deputy Director for the Contracting Operations Division in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Contracting). She assisted the Deputy Assistant Secretary in carrying out responsibilities for all aspects of contracting related to the acquisition of weapon systems, and logistics support for the Air Force $825B acquisition portfolio supporting Space, Global Power, Global Reach, and Information Dominance programs.

Darbi began her contracting career in 1985 as a Palace Acquire intern at the Defense Contract Management Agency–Boeing Seattle (formerly the Air Force Plant Representative Office). She has served as a contract negotiator, contracting officer, and chief of contracts in various programs at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Eglin Air Force Base. Darbi has worked in all phases of procurement, from research and development through sustainment and on multiple systems to include the F-16 fighter jet and Predator/Reaper “drone” programs. In December 2011, she was selected in the Defense Senior Leader Development program and attended the College of Naval Warfare in Newport, RI. This led to a 13-month deployment with The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) Joint Theater Support Contracting Center in Kabul, Afghanistan and ultimately, in September 2014, to her position in Air Force Headquarters.