Alan Perry

Alan Perry serves as a Technical Contracting Specialist at the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, where he plays a pivotal role in shaping the acquisition strategy for advanced aviation systems. His responsibilities include evaluating technical proposals, defining performance requirements, and ensuring contractual compliance for R&D initiatives focused on next-generation avionics, electronic warfare systems, and mission-critical aircraft subsystems. As a technical liaison between engineering teams and procurement offices, Perry ensures that contract deliverables align with fleet modernization goals and operational readiness mandates. He primarily handles complex, performance-based acquisitions for prototype development, systems integration, and sustainment of airborne sensor suites and communications architectures. Perry maintains longstanding partnerships with leading defense technology contractors including SABRE SYSTEMS, LLC, THE BOEING COMPANY, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, INC., and ONTIC ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC. These relationships are characterized by deep technical collaboration, with contractors frequently engaged in early-stage concept development, technical risk assessment, and iterative prototyping under cost-reimbursable and time-and-materials contracts. His approach emphasizes technical merit over price alone, fostering long-term vendor engagement on high-priority naval aviation programs. Perry’s procurement portfolio reflects a strict focus on open competition, with 100% of acquisitions conducted without set-asides for 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic categories. This reflects the agency’s reliance on specialized technical capabilities that are currently concentrated among a limited pool of large, cleared defense contractors with proven expertise in classified aerospace systems. His primary procurement activity falls under NAICS 541712—Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences—where he sources advanced engineering services for avionics architecture, radar signal processing, electronic countermeasures, and embedded flight systems. His domain expertise centers on airborne sensor integration, secure data links, and mission computer modernization, ensuring that contracted R&D directly supports the Navy’s air superiority objectives.