Crystal Lopez

Crystal Carter serves as a key procurement professional within NAVFACSYSCOM Atlantic, supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to sustain and modernize critical naval infrastructure across the Atlantic region and overseas installations. She manages a diverse portfolio of construction and engineering contracts, focusing on facility resilience, munitions handling upgrades, and power/water system enhancements. Her acquisitions span design-build, integrated project delivery, and performance-based service contracts, ensuring alignment with Navy strategic priorities for operational readiness and infrastructure modernization. She plays a central role in translating mission requirements into executable contracting strategies that balance technical complexity with fiscal responsibility. Carter maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of qualified contractors, including MEB General Contractors Inc., AMD International Technologies LLC, Stantec-AECOM SIOP JV, M&N-BMCD LANT SIOP JV, and Cape-Aptim JV1, LLC. These partnerships reflect a preference for joint ventures and multidisciplinary teams capable of delivering complex, integrated facility solutions across civil engineering, construction, and technical services. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance outcomes, lifecycle cost efficiency, and collaborative project execution, often leveraging SIOP vehicles to streamline acquisition timelines and enhance contractor accountability. Her procurement patterns demonstrate a balanced commitment to socioeconomic goals, with approximately one-third of awards designated for small business set-asides—equally split between Total Small Business and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) categories. While the majority of contracts are unrestricted, she actively prioritizes SDVOSB participation in technical and construction services, reflecting a deliberate effort to foster veteran-owned enterprise capacity within the defense infrastructure sector. Carter’s primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services) and 236116 (New Multifamily Housing Construction), with significant activity also in commercial and institutional building construction (236220) and residential remodeling (236118). Her technical domain expertise centers on facility modernization, energy resiliency, and expeditionary infrastructure, overseeing procurements for design, construction, and retrofitting of naval housing, support facilities, and mission-critical infrastructure systems.