Deborah Baravik

Deborah Baravik serves as a key procurement professional within Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA HQ), 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 contract actions centered on shipbuilding and repair, ensuring alignment with naval readiness goals and lifecycle support requirements. Her work directly enables the integration of advanced propulsion, hull systems, and combat-ready infrastructure across surface and undersea platforms, operating within the full spectrum of defense acquisition regulations and lifecycle management frameworks. Baravik maintains consistent partnerships with leading shipbuilding and defense technology 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 relationships reflect a blend of large prime contractors delivering integrated ship systems and specialized vendors providing niche components, subsystems, and technical services. Her procurement approach emphasizes long-term vendor collaboration, technical compliance, and performance-based contract structures to ensure operational reliability and innovation in naval platforms. A strong advocate for small business participation, Baravik prioritizes Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, with approximately two-thirds of her contract actions reserved for small businesses. This pattern underscores a deliberate commitment to fostering competition, enhancing industrial base resilience, and expanding opportunities for small firms in the naval shipbuilding supply chain. Her contracting decisions consistently reflect socioeconomic objectives aligned with federal mandates and NAVSEA’s broader goals of inclusive economic growth within the defense industrial base. Her procurement focus is exclusively concentrated on NAICS 336611—Ship Building and Repairing—reflecting deep expertise in naval architecture, structural fabrication, propulsion integration, and shipyard modernization. She procures end-to-end vessel construction services, repair and maintenance contracts, and associated engineering support, ensuring technical compliance with Navy shipbuilding standards and naval engineering specifications.