Alison Wicks

Alison Wicks 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. She manages complex acquisitions centered on sensor, navigation, guidance, and electronic warfare technologies critical to undersea, surface, and aerial domain superiority. Her portfolio encompasses high-precision instrumentation, integrated communication suites, and test systems used in the evaluation and certification of naval platforms, ensuring operational readiness through rigorous technical validation and lifecycle support. Wicks maintains strategic relationships with leading defense technology contractors including Science Applications International Corporation, Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, Astronics Test Systems Inc, Serco Inc, and Mikel Inc. These partnerships reflect a preference for established industry leaders with proven expertise in naval systems integration, signal processing, and ruggedized electronic hardware. Her contracting approach emphasizes technical rigor, performance-based requirements, and long-term vendor collaboration to ensure system interoperability and sustainment across the fleet. Wicks’ procurement activity is exclusively non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a mission-critical focus on accessing the broadest possible pool of technical capability, prioritizing performance, innovation, and system readiness over socioeconomic preferences. While small business participation is not formally incentivized in her portfolio, vendors of all sizes compete on technical merit and proven track records in defense-grade engineering. Her primary focus lies within NAICS 334511—Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing—where she procures advanced sonar arrays, inertial navigation units, electronic countermeasure components, and underwater acoustic test equipment. Her expertise spans the full lifecycle of naval sensor systems, from prototyping and lab validation to field deployment and maintenance support, ensuring alignment with Navy’s undersea warfare objectives.