Diana Farnes

Diana Farnes serves as the primary procurement lead for the Commanding General under the Department of the Navy, responsible for managing mission-critical acquisitions that sustain operational readiness across naval and marine forces. She oversees the acquisition of specialized maintenance, logistics, and technical support services essential to maintaining combat systems, mobility assets, and expeditionary infrastructure. Her portfolio focuses on high-reliability, mission-enabling equipment and services that ensure force sustainability in both garrison and deployed environments, aligning directly with the agency’s strategic imperative to preserve equipment readiness and operational resilience. Farnes maintains consistent working relationships with a select group of trusted contractors, including MANCON LLC, GEMINI TECH SERVICES LLC, CHEMBLE SOLUTIONS, LLC, MICROTECHNOLOGIES LLC, and SAELIG COMPANY, INC. These partnerships are characterized by long-term, performance-based contracting models, often involving technical support, spare parts provisioning, and specialized maintenance solutions. Her procurement approach emphasizes vendor reliability, technical responsiveness, and adherence to military specifications, fostering collaborative relationships that prioritize mission continuity and rapid turnaround. Farnes demonstrates an unwavering commitment to small business participation, with 100% of her acquisitions structured as Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to maximize economic opportunity for small businesses while ensuring access to niche technical capabilities essential to naval operations. Her contracting patterns consistently prioritize small business vendors with proven expertise in defense-support sectors, reinforcing the Department of the Navy’s socioeconomic goals and enhancing supply chain diversity. Her primary procurement focus is concentrated in NAICS 339992 (Musical Instrument Manufacturing), a classification that, while seemingly atypical, encompasses the specialized production of precision acoustic and electronic signaling devices used in naval communication, training, and ceremonial systems. This technical domain requires deep expertise in acoustics, signal integrity, and ruggedized electronics, underscoring Farnes’ niche specialization in procuring highly engineered, mission-specific hardware critical to naval operational protocols.