Christine M Cullison

Christine M. Cullison serves as a Contract Officer at the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, where she manages the acquisition of mission-critical aviation systems and technical services essential to maintaining air superiority and fleet readiness. She oversees the full lifecycle of complex procurements, including research and development, systems integration, and sustainment contracts for advanced avionics, electronic warfare suites, and aircraft subsystems. Her work directly supports the agency’s strategic priorities in modernizing airborne sensor architectures and enhancing next-generation platform capabilities, ensuring alignment with Navy aviation modernization roadmaps. Cullison maintains consistent, long-term relationships with prime contractors including SABRE SYSTEMS, LLC, THE BOEING COMPANY, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, INC., and ONTIC ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC. These partnerships span high-technology engineering, systems integration, and specialized manufacturing, reflecting her focus on mission-critical, low-risk vendor relationships with proven technical expertise in naval aviation domains. She typically engages contractors through competitive sealed bidding and negotiated acquisitions under FAR Part 15, prioritizing performance-based contracting and technical risk mitigation. Cullison’s procurement portfolio is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of her awards conducted under full and open competition. While she does not utilize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, her approach emphasizes technical merit and industrial base capability over socioeconomic criteria, ensuring mission-critical requirements are met with the most qualified industry partners. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services) and 336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing), with significant activity in 334511 (Aeronautical System and Instrument Manufacturing) and 541712 (R&D in Physical and Engineering Sciences). She specializes in acquiring advanced navigation, guidance, and communication systems, as well as custom aircraft components and integrated mission systems, demonstrating deep domain expertise in naval airborne electronics and avionics modernization.