Aisha Collins

Aisha Collins serves as a key procurement professional within the U.S. Coast Guard’s SFLC Procurement Branch 1 (70Z080), where she manages complex acquisitions critical to sustaining and modernizing the Coast Guard’s fleet of cutters and maritime assets. Her responsibilities encompass the full lifecycle of shipbuilding and repair contracts, ensuring operational readiness through dry dock overhauls, propulsion system upgrades, and structural refurbishments. She specializes in negotiating and administering contracts under the NAICS 336611 classification, coordinating with shipyards, marine contractors, and specialized vendors to deliver mission-critical vessel maintenance and modernization services aligned with Coast Guard strategic readiness goals. Collins maintains longstanding partnerships with industry leaders including Fairbanks Morse, LLC, Bay Ship & Yacht Co, Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors, L.L.C., Automatic Coating Limited USA, and Technico Corporation. These relationships are built on technical expertise in naval architecture, corrosion protection, and marine systems integration, with a consistent emphasis on performance-based contracting and quality assurance protocols. Her procurement approach prioritizes long-term vendor collaboration, ensuring compliance with maritime safety standards and lifecycle cost efficiency. Aisha demonstrates a robust commitment to small business participation, with over 76% of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. She actively leverages socioeconomic programs to engage qualified small businesses, including women-owned small businesses, fostering a competitive and inclusive supplier base. Her contracting patterns reflect a deliberate strategy to cultivate capacity within the domestic maritime industrial base. Her technical focus is exclusively on NAICS 336611—Ship Building and Repairing—where she procures specialized services such as hull rehabilitation, diesel-electric propulsion overhauls, marine coating systems, and structural steel fabrication. Her expertise lies in managing technically complex, long-duration contracts requiring rigorous engineering oversight and adherence to U.S. Navy and Coast Guard shipbuilding specifications.