Amanda Jones

Amanda Jones serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), supporting the lifecycle acquisition and sustainment of critical naval aviation systems. She manages complex contract actions for advanced aircraft components and auxiliary equipment, ensuring alignment with NAVAIR’s mission to maintain air superiority through modernized carrier-based and expeditionary platforms. Her work directly enables the fielding of next-generation avionics, propulsion subsystems, and mission-critical support infrastructure for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, with a focus on technical rigor, operational readiness, and lifecycle cost efficiency. Jones maintains sustained contracting relationships with industry leaders including Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and General Atomics, all of which are primary providers of high-performance aerospace systems and integrated avionics. Her procurement approach emphasizes long-term partnerships with prime contractors possessing deep domain expertise in military aircraft manufacturing, ensuring seamless integration of cutting-edge technologies into operational fleets. She consistently engages these vendors through performance-based contracts, incentive structures, and technical specification alignment to meet rigorous naval aviation standards. Jones’s procurement portfolio is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic emphasis on leveraging the broadest industrial base capable of meeting the technical complexity and scale required for naval aviation systems, rather than socioeconomic set-asides. While small business participation is not formally prioritized through set-aside mechanisms, her contracting actions remain compliant with all federal small business goals through subcontracting oversight and prime contractor obligations. Her primary focus lies within NAICS 336413—Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing—where she procures specialized components such as flight control actuators, mission computer interfaces, sensor integration modules, and maintenance support systems. This specialization underscores her technical expertise in aerospace subsystems and her role in sustaining the readiness of naval aircraft across the full spectrum of operational environments.