Brandi Upton

Brandi Upton serves as a key procurement professional within Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Atlantic (NAVFACSYSCOM Atlantic), supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to sustain and modernize critical infrastructure across Atlantic-region and overseas naval installations. She manages a diverse portfolio of construction, engineering, and technical service acquisitions, focusing on heavy civil works, facility modernization, and mission-critical support systems. Her work directly enables the agency’s strategic priorities in power and water resiliency, munitions infrastructure upgrades, and expeditionary facility readiness, ensuring timely and compliant delivery of high-priority projects through full and open competition. Upton maintains established relationships with a core group of prime contractors including MEB General Contractors Inc., AMD International Technologies LLC, Stantec-AECOM SIOP JV, M&N-BMCD LANT SIOP JV, and Cape-Aptim JV1, LLC. These partnerships reflect a preference for experienced, multi-disciplinary firms capable of delivering complex construction, engineering design, and integrated facility services under SIOP and other Navy-specific contracting vehicles. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, rigorous technical evaluation, and long-term contractor reliability over short-term cost savings. Her acquisition strategy is fully aligned with full and open competition, with no set-asides applied across her portfolio. This reflects a deliberate focus on leveraging the broadest possible pool of qualified contractors to meet mission-critical timelines and technical demands, rather than prioritizing socioeconomic programs. While small business participation is not formally mandated in her awards, all vendors are evaluated on technical merit, past performance, and capacity to execute large-scale infrastructure projects. Upton’s primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 237990 (Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction), with significant activity in commercial and institutional building construction, professional training services, software publishing, and information services. Her technical expertise spans infrastructure resilience, digital facility management systems, and mission-support training solutions, positioning her at the intersection of physical construction and operational technology modernization within naval environments.