Dale Coon

Dale Coon serves as a key procurement lead within the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, responsible for managing complex acquisitions of advanced aviation systems and mission-critical subsystems. Focused on sustaining and modernizing naval air platforms, Coon oversees the full lifecycle of contracts for avionics, electronic warfare suites, communications arrays, and auxiliary aircraft equipment. Their work directly supports the agency’s mission to ensure air superiority through integrated, next-generation airborne technologies, ensuring timely delivery of high-reliability systems to fleet operators. Coon’s portfolio is characterized by technical rigor, stringent performance requirements, and alignment with Navy aviation modernization roadmaps. Coon maintains enduring relationships with leading defense aerospace primes and specialized engineering firms, 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 airborne system integration, software-defined radio architectures, and ruggedized hardware development. The contracting pattern emphasizes long-term sustainment contracts and technical refresh initiatives, often involving systems engineering and technical assistance (SETA) support to ensure interoperability across legacy and emerging platforms. Coon’s procurement activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic emphasis on accessing the broadest possible pool of technical expertise and industrial capacity, prioritizing capability and readiness over socioeconomic classifications. While small business participation is not formally mandated, the nature of the procurements often enables subcontracting opportunities for specialized vendors within the broader supply chain. The primary NAICS classification is 336413—Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing—indicating a sharp focus on the procurement of specialized avionics components, mission computer modules, sensor interfaces, and embedded flight systems. Coon’s expertise lies in acquiring high-integrity, MIL-STD-compliant hardware and software systems critical to aircraft survivability, situational awareness, and network-centric operations.