Christiana Casey

Christiana Casey serves as a key procurement lead within Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), supporting the acquisition and lifecycle management of naval vessels and mission-critical maritime systems. She plays a central role in executing the agency’s mission to sustain and modernize the U.S. Navy’s fleet by managing full-spectrum shipbuilding and repair contracts under the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Her portfolio focuses exclusively on complex, high-stakes acquisitions involving ship construction, hull systems, propulsion integration, and naval electronics, ensuring technical compliance and operational readiness across surface and undersea platforms. She works closely with engineering and program management teams to align contracting strategy with fleet modernization priorities. Christiana maintains strategic relationships with leading defense contractors including Damen Shipbuilding & Cooperation B.V., Huntington Ingalls Incorporated, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, G.S.E. Dynamics, Inc., and Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC. These partnerships span large prime contractors with deep naval expertise and specialized systems integrators, reflecting a balanced approach to leveraging industrial capacity while fostering innovation in naval architecture and shipboard systems. Her contracting patterns emphasize long-term collaboration with vendors possessing proven track records in naval vessel construction and retrofit programs. Her procurement strategy is uniformly aligned with full small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating an unwavering commitment to maximizing participation from small businesses across the shipbuilding supply chain. Every contract she manages is structured to ensure equitable access for small business concerns, reinforcing NAVSEA’s statutory obligations and national policy goals for economic inclusion in defense manufacturing. Christiana’s expertise is concentrated in NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing), encompassing the full spectrum of naval ship construction, dry docking, modernization, and systems integration. She procures specialized components including hull structures, combat systems interfaces, propulsion trains, and electro-mechanical subsystems critical to fleet survivability and operational effectiveness. Her domain knowledge spans naval engineering standards, MIL-SPEC compliance, and lifecycle support frameworks essential to maintaining naval superiority.