From the second bit I bolded in the quote:
DemonTree:
The regulations thus set forth how contractors were to map the employment of women and minorities in their organization; determine the availability of women and minorities in the contractor’s labor pool; establish “placement goals” to bring the contractor’s workforce in line, demographically, with the labor pools; and take action to achieve those goals.
‘Placement goals’ = targets, which are based on the demographics of the labour pool, and the company is required to take action in an effort to reach those goals, without using quotas or even explicit preferences based on protected characteristics.
Here’s what it says in the Code of Federal Regulations:
An affirmative action program is a management tool designed to ensure equal employment opportunity. A central premise underlying affirmative action is that, absent discrimination, over time a contractor’s workforce, generally, will reflect the gender, racial and ethnic profile of the labor pools from which the contractor recruits and selects. Affirmative action programs contain a diagnostic component which includes a number of quantitative analyses designed to evaluate the composition of the workforce of the contractor and compare it to the composition of the relevant labor pools. Affirmative action programs also include action-oriented programs. If women and minorities are not being employed at a rate to be expected given their availability in the relevant labor pool, the contractor’s affirmative action program includes specific practical steps designed to address this underutilization. Effective affirmative action programs also include internal auditing and reporting systems as a means of measuring the contractor’s progress toward achieving the workforce that would be expected in the absence of discrimination.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-41/subtitle-B/chapter-60/part-60-2/subpart-B/section-60-2.10
Interestingly, it appears contractors have no such obligation if men or white people (unless in Hawaii maybe?) are underrepresented in their workforce.