Danielle Fennelly

Danielle Fennelly serves as a key procurement professional within Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSYSCOM), supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to sustain and modernize the U.S. Fleet through strategic acquisition of naval vessels and mission-critical systems. She manages complex contracting actions centered on shipbuilding, repair, and the integration of advanced nautical and combat systems, ensuring alignment with fleet readiness objectives and technological innovation. Her work directly enables the lifecycle support of surface and undersea platforms, from initial design through sustainment, with a focus on delivering high-assurance, combat-ready capabilities to the warfighter. Fennelly maintains established working relationships with leading defense prime contractors including Huntington Ingalls Incorporated, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Damen Shipbuilding & Cooperation B.V., G.S.E. Dynamics, Inc., and Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC. These partnerships reflect a reliance on Tier-1 industrial base entities with proven expertise in naval architecture, integrated combat systems, and shipyard modernization. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, technical rigor, and long-term sustainment planning, fostering collaborative engagements that prioritize reliability and mission-critical delivery timelines. Her procurement portfolio is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition, indicating a strategic emphasis on leveraging the broadest industrial capability rather than socioeconomic preferences. This reflects a mission-critical priority to access specialized technical expertise and large-scale shipbuilding infrastructure, where scale, certification, and proven naval experience are decisive factors. Fennelly’s primary focus lies in NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing), accounting for nearly 96% of her activity, with supplementary procurement in NAICS 334511 for naval navigation, detection, and guidance systems. She specializes in acquiring integrated warship platforms, propulsion systems, hull structures, and combat electronics, demonstrating deep domain expertise in naval engineering and maritime systems integration.