Christina Garcia-Flowers

Christina Garcia-Flowers serves as a key procurement lead within the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division, where she manages the acquisition of advanced aviation training systems critical to naval aircrew readiness. Her responsibilities encompass the full lifecycle procurement of mission-critical simulation platforms, immersive training environments, and integrated avionics infrastructure, ensuring alignment with Navy modernization priorities. She specializes in complex, technology-driven contracts for tactical flight training systems, synthetic training devices, and mission rehearsal software, often requiring stringent compliance with defense technical standards and cybersecurity protocols. Her primary contractor relationships are centered on STRACON SERVICES GROUP, LLC and FLIGHTSAFETY INTERNATIONAL INC, both of which provide high-fidelity flight simulators, curriculum integration services, and live-virtual-constructive training solutions. Garcia-Flowers fosters long-term, performance-based partnerships with these industry leaders, emphasizing system interoperability, sustainment support, and rapid technology insertion. Her contracting approach prioritizes vendor accountability through performance metrics and technical validation, ensuring training systems meet evolving operational requirements. She maintains a strict 100% Small Business Set-Aside preference under FAR 19.5, consistently directing all acquisitions to small businesses certified under the Small Business Administration’s programs. This reflects a deliberate strategy to cultivate innovation from niche defense contractors and ensure broad participation from emerging technology firms within the naval aviation training ecosystem. Her procurement activity is exclusively focused on NAICS 334111—Electronic Computer Manufacturing—reflecting a deep specialization in the development and integration of custom computing systems for military training applications. She procures advanced hardware and software platforms including embedded flight computers, real-time simulation engines, and secure data networks, demonstrating technical fluency in avionics architecture, human-machine interface design, and mission-critical software validation.