Dawn A. Griffin

Dawn A. Griffin supports the procurement mission of Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport by managing complex acquisitions critical to advancing naval warfare systems. She handles contracts for advanced sensor technologies, electronic warfare components, and integrated communication systems that enable undersea, surface, and aerial domain superiority. Her work directly supports NUWC’s core mandate of research, development, testing, and evaluation of next-generation maritime capabilities, ensuring timely delivery of mission-critical hardware and systems to the U.S. Navy. Griffin’s portfolio emphasizes high-precision engineering and defense-grade instrumentation, requiring rigorous technical compliance and systems integration expertise. She maintains longstanding relationships with key industry partners including Science Applications International Corporation, Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, Astronics Test Systems Inc, Serco Inc, and Mikel Inc. These contractors provide specialized solutions in navigation systems, test instrumentation, and mission-critical electronics, often under performance-based contracting frameworks. Griffin fosters collaborative, long-term vendor partnerships grounded in technical rigor, quality assurance, and rapid prototyping cycles essential to naval innovation timelines. Her contracting patterns reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 88.9% of awards issued without set-asides, indicating a focus on technical capability over socioeconomic classifications. However, she consistently allocates 11.1% of awards to total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a measured but intentional commitment to small business participation when market conditions support it. Griffin’s primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 334511, encompassing search, detection, navigation, and guidance systems, which accounts for nearly half of her portfolio. She also procures precision-turned components, hardware assemblies, and wireless communications equipment under NAICS 332721, 332510, and 334220, respectively. Her technical domain expertise centers on sonar arrays, underwater acoustic sensors, electronic countermeasures, and ruggedized avionics systems integral to naval platform modernization.