Alex Sasso

Alex Sasso serves as a key procurement professional within Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport, supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to develop and field advanced maritime warfare systems. Responsible for managing complex acquisitions in sensor, navigation, and electronic warfare technologies, Sasso oversees contracts critical to undersea, surface, and aerial domain superiority. Their work centers on the design, integration, and testing of mission-critical systems, ensuring alignment with naval operational requirements and technological innovation. Sasso’s portfolio primarily involves high-precision instrumentation, signal processing hardware, and integrated communication architectures essential for modern naval platforms. Sasso maintains consistent partnerships with leading defense technology providers including Science Applications International Corporation, Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, Astronics Test Systems Inc, Serco Inc, and Mikel Inc. These relationships reflect a preference for established contractors with proven expertise in naval systems integration, test equipment, and electronic warfare components. The working model emphasizes technical proficiency, rigorous compliance with military specifications, and sustained performance on long-term development and sustainment contracts. Sasso’s procurement activity shows a 100% preference for unrestricted, full and open competition, with no set-asides designated for 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic programs. This reflects a mission-driven focus on technical capability over socioeconomic targeting, prioritizing performance, reliability, and readiness over programmatic diversity metrics. The primary NAICS classification underpinning Sasso’s acquisitions is 334511, encompassing the manufacturing of search, detection, navigation, guidance, aeronautical, and nautical systems and instruments. This specialization underscores deep expertise in procuring sonar arrays, inertial navigation units, underwater acoustic sensors, and electronic countermeasure subsystems—core technologies enabling naval dominance across all operational domains.