Cheryl McGuire

Cheryl McGuire serves as a Procuring Contracting Officer at the Naval Air Warfare Center, where she leads the acquisition of mission-critical aviation systems and technologies essential to naval air dominance. Responsible for end-to-end contract execution, she manages complex solicitations and awards for advanced avionics, sensor integration, communications platforms, and mission simulation systems. Her work directly supports the Center’s mission to develop and evaluate next-generation airborne capabilities, ensuring timely delivery of technically sophisticated solutions that enhance command and control, electronic warfare, and avionics reliability across naval aviation platforms. Cheryl maintains consistent, long-term relationships with prime contractors including Lockheed Martin Corporation, Jacobs Technology Inc., SAIC, Teya Support Services LLC, and Kranze Technology Solutions Inc. These partnerships are characterized by deep technical collaboration, iterative requirements development, and performance-based contract management. She routinely engages these firms on large-scale R&D and systems integration efforts, fostering a procurement environment grounded in technical rigor, risk mitigation, and lifecycle support for mission-critical systems. Cheryl’s procurement portfolio is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic focus on accessing the broadest possible pool of technical expertise and industrial capacity to meet the Navy’s demanding performance standards. While she does not utilize socioeconomic set-asides, her contracting decisions prioritize technical merit, past performance, and system readiness over socioeconomic categorization. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 334210—Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing—which encompasses the development and integration of secure, high-bandwidth communication systems, signal processing hardware, and embedded networking components for naval aircraft. She specializes in procuring ruggedized electronics, data link systems, and mission-critical software-defined radio platforms, demonstrating deep expertise in the intersection of commercial telecommunications technology and military avionics requirements.