Carly Beadle

Carly Beadle serves as the primary procurement lead at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, where she manages critical acquisitions supporting the design, development, and sustainment of advanced undersea warfare systems. Her responsibilities encompass the full lifecycle contracting for specialized electronic warfare components, ruggedized computing platforms, and signal processing technologies essential to submarine and unmanned undersea vehicle operations. She ensures alignment with the Center’s mission of technological superiority in sonar, navigation, and underwater sensing systems, frequently overseeing complex contracts requiring strict compliance with military specifications and secure supply chain protocols. Beadle maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of contractors including Ordnance Technology Service, Inc., Boh Environmental, L.L.C., Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, McKenzie Construction & Site Development LLC, and EOS of North America, Inc. These partnerships reflect a focus on niche technical providers capable of delivering high-reliability hardware, environmental compliance services, and mission-critical manufacturing solutions under stringent naval standards. Her procurement approach emphasizes long-term vendor collaboration, technical validation, and performance-based contracting to ensure operational readiness in austere undersea environments. A strong advocate for small business participation, Beadle consistently structures acquisitions under the Total Small Business Set-Aside category, with 62.5% of her contracts reserved for small businesses under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to cultivate a resilient supplier base of innovative firms capable of meeting the Navy’s unique undersea technology demands, while fostering economic inclusion across the defense industrial base. Her procurement activity is overwhelmingly concentrated in NAICS 331492—Secondary Smelting, Refining, and Alloying of Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum)—indicating a specialized focus on advanced metallurgical processes for high-performance components used in sonar transducers, pressure housings, and corrosion-resistant subsystems. This technical domain requires deep expertise in material science and defense-grade alloy fabrication, underscoring her role in enabling the Navy’s undersea dominance through precision materials procurement.