Colleen C Caouette

Colleen C. Caouette serves as a Contracting Specialist at the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, where she plays a pivotal role in acquiring advanced avionics, mission systems, and engineering services critical to naval air superiority. She manages the full lifecycle of complex procurements, from requirements validation and market research to contract award and administration, ensuring alignment with the agency’s mission to modernize airborne sensor suites, electronic warfare systems, and mission-critical aircraft subsystems. Her portfolio primarily consists of high-technology, performance-based contracts supporting research, development, test, and evaluation of next-generation naval aviation platforms. Caouette maintains enduring 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 are characterized by long-term collaboration on technical integration projects, systems engineering support, and specialized manufacturing of aerospace components. She consistently engages these prime contractors to deliver mission-critical capabilities under firm-fixed-price and cost-reimbursement contract types, emphasizing technical excellence and schedule adherence. Her contracting approach reflects a strong focus on full and open competition, with 100% of her awards issued under no set-aside conditions. While she does not routinely utilize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, her procurement strategy prioritizes access to specialized technical expertise over socioeconomic preferences, aligning with the highly specialized nature of naval aviation systems acquisition. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 334511, encompassing the acquisition of search, detection, navigation, and aeronautical systems, as well as NAICS 541330 for advanced engineering services. She specializes in procuring integrated avionics, radar and electronic warfare subsystems, flight control systems, and mission data processing technologies, demonstrating deep domain expertise in airborne sensor integration and systems engineering for next-generation naval aircraft.