Benjamin Flores

Benjamin Flores serves as the primary contracting lead at the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, where he manages the acquisition of advanced avionics, electronic warfare systems, and mission-critical aircraft subsystems essential to maintaining naval air superiority. His role centers on executing complex procurements aligned with the agency’s mission to modernize airborne sensor suites and sustain legacy platforms, ensuring operational readiness across the fleet. Flores routinely handles high-technical acquisitions involving systems integration, software development, and testing services, working closely with engineering and technical staff to translate capability requirements into compliant, performance-based contract actions. He maintains consistent working relationships with leading defense and aerospace contractors including SABRE SYSTEMS, LLC, THE BOEING COMPANY, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, INC., and ONTIC ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC. These partnerships reflect a preference for established industry leaders with proven expertise in airborne systems, signal processing, and mission-critical software development. Flores’ contracting approach emphasizes technical rigor, risk mitigation, and performance accountability, fostering long-term vendor collaboration on multi-year modernization initiatives. His procurement portfolio reflects a strong orientation toward open competition, with 95.2% of awards issued without set-aside designations, indicating a focus on technical capability over socioeconomic preferences. While small business participation remains minimal at 4.8%, it is primarily channeled through Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, suggesting a selective but compliant approach to socioeconomic goals. Flores’ acquisitions are heavily concentrated in NAICS 334515 (instrument manufacturing for electrical signal testing) and 513210 (software publishing), reflecting deep specialization in avionics test equipment, embedded software, and computer systems design services. His work demands expertise in digital signal processing, electronic warfare countermeasures, and mission systems integration, positioning him at the nexus of defense engineering and procurement execution.