Bethanie Healey

Bethanie Healey serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, supporting the development, testing, and sustainment of advanced naval aviation systems. She manages complex acquisitions for mission-critical avionics, flight control instrumentation, diagnostic systems, and specialized aircraft components, ensuring alignment with the Navy’s operational readiness goals. Her work directly enables the integration of next-generation technologies into carrier-based and land-based aircraft platforms, bridging technical requirements with acquisition execution across the full lifecycle—from R&D through sustainment. Healey operates within a high-stakes, technically rigorous environment where precision, compliance, and rapid prototyping are essential to maintaining airpower superiority. She maintains consistent partnerships with leading defense contractors including Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc., PCI Aviation LLC, Critical Communications, Controls and Instruments, LLC, and Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC. These relationships are characterized by long-term collaboration on high-performance systems requiring stringent military specifications, including MIL-STD-810 and DO-160 compliance. Healey frequently engages these vendors on sole-source and competitive procurements for custom-engineered components, emphasizing technical innovation, supply chain resilience, and rapid delivery timelines. Healey’s procurement portfolio reflects a strong preference for full and open competition, with no set-aside programs currently utilized across her acquisitions. While small business participation is not formally mandated in her portfolio, she remains attentive to socioeconomic contracting opportunities when technically justified, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations while prioritizing mission-critical performance. Her primary NAICS focus includes Other Electronic Component Manufacturing, Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing, and Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing, reflecting deep expertise in avionics, sensor systems, flight instrumentation, and precision hardware. She routinely procures custom-built circuitry, embedded control units, diagnostic test equipment, and ruggedized aerospace-grade components tailored to extreme operational environments.