Angie Cooperider

Angie Cooperider serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (N00164), supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to develop, test, and sustain advanced electronic, electro-optical, and ordnance systems for naval warfare. She manages complex acquisitions for critical defense technologies, including signal processing systems, radar detection platforms, electronic warfare suites, and precision guidance instrumentation. Her work directly enables the modernization of expeditionary and surface force capabilities, ensuring operational readiness through timely and technically sound contracting actions. Cooperider’s portfolio centers on high-priority R&D and sustainment programs requiring rigorous compliance with defense acquisition regulations and technical validation protocols. Her primary contractor relationships include Lockheed Martin Corporation, Programs Management Analytics & Technologies Inc., Integrity Defense Services Inc., and Black Hills Ammunition Inc., reflecting a strong emphasis on defense prime contractors and specialized technical service providers. She also collaborates with McKenzie Construction & Site Development LLC for facility and infrastructure support. These partnerships are characterized by long-term engagement, performance-based contract structures, and a reliance on vendors with proven expertise in military-grade electronics, ordnance systems, and mission-critical logistics. Cooperider’s contracting 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 and operational urgency over socioeconomic preferences, prioritizing vendor expertise and system readiness over programmatic diversity targets. Her procurement activity is overwhelmingly concentrated in NAICS 334511, encompassing the development and integration of search, detection, navigation, and guidance systems, with a secondary focus on NAICS 335911 for specialized instrumentation. She routinely procures advanced sensors, electronic countermeasures, signal intelligence hardware, and ordnance control systems, demonstrating deep domain expertise in naval electronic warfare and precision munitions technologies.