Donna Giovenco

Donna M. Giovenco serves as a key procurement lead within the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, supporting the development, testing, and sustainment of advanced naval aviation systems. She manages complex acquisitions for mission-critical avionics, electronic warfare subsystems, and aircraft integration technologies that ensure air superiority and fleet readiness. Her portfolio encompasses high-technical-demand contracts for sensor suites, communications equipment, and auxiliary aircraft systems, often requiring rigorous engineering validation and compliance with DoD technical standards. Giovenco plays a central role in aligning acquisition strategy with the Navy’s modernization priorities, ensuring timely delivery of capabilities to operational units. She maintains consistent partnerships with leading defense contractors including SABRE SYSTEMS, LLC, THE BOEING COMPANY, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, INC., and ONTIC ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC. These relationships reflect a blend of prime contractor engagement for large-scale system integration and specialized vendor collaboration for niche subsystems. Giovenco’s procurement approach emphasizes technical rigor, performance-based outcomes, and long-term sustainment planning, fostering stable, mission-aligned vendor partnerships across the aerospace and defense ecosystem. Her contracting patterns demonstrate a strong emphasis on small business participation, with 60% of awards structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. While women-owned and other socioeconomic categories are minimally utilized, her focus on small business set-asides underscores a deliberate strategy to expand the industrial base and leverage innovative capabilities from agile, specialized firms. This pattern supports broader DoD goals of resilience and competition in critical aviation technology domains. Giovenco’s primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 336413 (other aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing), 334220 (radio and wireless communications equipment), and 511210 (software publishing), reflecting deep expertise in airborne sensor systems, avionics integration, and mission software development. She routinely procures embedded systems, electronic countermeasures, data link components, and flight-critical software—technologies essential to next-generation naval aircraft platforms.