Dianna C. Aniton

Dianna B. Aniton serves as a Contracting Officer within the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Propulsion Directorate (FA8650), where she leads the acquisition of advanced aerospace technologies critical to U.S. air and space dominance. She manages complex research and development contracts focused on next-generation propulsion systems, hypersonic flight technologies, and high-performance functional materials, ensuring alignment with national defense priorities and federal procurement regulations. Her portfolio primarily supports fundamental and applied R&D initiatives that bridge laboratory innovation with operational capability, requiring deep technical understanding of aerospace engineering and materials science. Aniton maintains enduring partnerships with leading defense and aerospace contractors including UES INC, General Electric Company, DCS Corporation, Spirit Aerosystems Inc, and Advanced Thermoplastic Composites LLC. These relationships reflect a consistent focus on high-caliber technical providers with proven expertise in propulsion system design, adaptive flight control, and advanced composite manufacturing. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting, technical risk mitigation, and long-term collaboration with industry partners capable of delivering mission-critical solutions under stringent government standards. Her contracting patterns show a strong preference for unrestricted competitions, with 94.4% of awards issued without set-aside designations, reflecting the specialized nature of the technologies procured and the limited pool of qualified vendors. Only 5.6% of her awards are designated as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, indicating a selective but intentional inclusion of qualified small businesses when technical requirements permit. Aniton’s primary procurement focus is on NAICS 541712—Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences—accounting for nearly all of her activity. She routinely procures engineering services, materials characterization, propulsion system prototyping, and computational fluid dynamics modeling, demonstrating deep expertise in the technical domains of aerospace propulsion, hypersonics, and advanced materials development.