Daniel T. Haertle

Daniel T. Haertle serves as a Procuring Contracting Officer at the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, where he leads the acquisition of mission-critical aviation systems essential to maintaining air superiority and fleet readiness. Responsible for managing full lifecycle procurements, he specializes in the acquisition of advanced avionics, electronic warfare suites, communications subsystems, and integrated mission systems for next-generation naval aircraft. His portfolio supports the development, testing, and sustainment of high-performance airborne platforms, ensuring technological edge and operational reliability across the Navy’s aviation enterprise. Haertle’s work directly enables the integration of cutting-edge sensor architectures and mission-critical software into legacy and emerging airframes. He maintains consistent procurement relationships with industry leaders 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 focus on prime contractors with deep expertise in aerospace systems integration, defense electronics, and mission systems engineering. Haertle engages these vendors through competitive sealed bidding and negotiated contracts, prioritizing technical capability, schedule adherence, and systems interoperability over cost alone. Haertle’s contracting activity reflects a 100% no set-aside preference, indicating a strategic focus on full and open competition to ensure access to the broadest range of technical expertise and industrial capacity. While small business participation is not formally mandated through socioeconomic set-asides, his acquisitions remain open to all qualified vendors, including small businesses that compete on an equal footing under full and open procedures. His procurement portfolio is exclusively aligned with NAICS 336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing), emphasizing the acquisition of airframe-integrated systems, flight control hardware, radar and electronic attack payloads, and embedded mission computing systems. Haertle’s technical domain expertise centers on complex aerospace procurement, requiring deep understanding of MIL-STD specifications, DoD acquisition regulations, and systems engineering processes critical to naval aviation modernization.