Charles Renno

Charles Renno serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock (N00167), supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to advance maritime warfare capabilities through research, development, and testing of naval platforms. He manages complex acquisitions in shipbuilding and engineering services, overseeing contracts that enable signature management, hydrodynamic optimization, propulsion system integration, and advanced sensor deployment. His work directly supports the modernization of U.S. surface and underwater vessels, ensuring operational superiority through technically rigorous and mission-critical procurement actions. Renno maintains established relationships with leading defense contractors including BAE Systems Land & Armaments L.P., Goodrich Corp., and Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, among others. These partnerships are typically structured around long-term technical support, systems integration, and specialized testing services. His contracting approach emphasizes collaboration with industry leaders possessing deep domain expertise in naval architecture, materials science, and survivability engineering, ensuring solutions meet stringent military performance and stealth requirements. Renno’s procurement portfolio reflects a strict focus on full and open competition, with 100% of awards issued under no set-aside classifications. This indicates a strategic preference for leveraging the broadest possible industrial base to meet mission-critical technical demands, rather than targeting socioeconomic categories such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. His approach prioritizes technical capability and mission readiness over socioeconomic preferences. His primary NAICS focus areas—336611 (Ship Building and Repairing) and 541330 (Engineering Services)—reflect his specialization in naval vessel design, modification, and systems engineering. He procures high-value technical services including hydrodynamic modeling, acoustic signature reduction, structural testing, and propulsion system validation, working closely with firms capable of delivering classified and controlled technical solutions for naval surface and subsurface platforms.