Christine Drager

Christine Drager serves as a key procurement lead within the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, overseeing the acquisition of advanced aviation systems critical to maintaining air superiority and fleet readiness. She manages complex contracts for the development, integration, and sustainment of mission-critical airborne subsystems, including avionics, electronic warfare suites, navigation systems, and auxiliary aircraft equipment. Her work directly supports the agency’s mission to modernize next-generation naval aircraft platforms through rapid technology insertion and lifecycle support, ensuring operational continuity for legacy and emerging platforms alike. Drager maintains strong, ongoing relationships with leading defense contractors including SABRE SYSTEMS, LLC, THE BOEING COMPANY, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, INC., and ONTIC ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC. These partnerships reflect a preference for established industry leaders with proven capabilities in aerospace systems engineering, systems integration, and high-reliability manufacturing. Her contracting approach emphasizes technical rigor, performance-based outcomes, and long-term sustainment planning, fostering collaborative vendor engagement across the full acquisition lifecycle. Drager’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 mission-critical performance requirements. While small business participation is not formally prioritized through socioeconomic set-asides, her contracting actions remain fully compliant with all federal acquisition regulations and encourage competition from all qualified vendors. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 336413 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing) and 336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing), with significant activity in 541712 (R&D in Physical and Engineering Sciences). She specializes in acquiring high-integrity avionics, sensor suites, mission computing systems, and precision measurement instrumentation, demonstrating deep expertise in airborne systems engineering, electronic warfare modernization, and aircraft subsystem integration.