Douglas Pohlman

Douglas Pohlman serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock (N00167), supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to advance maritime warfare capabilities through research, development, and testing of advanced naval systems. He manages a portfolio of acquisitions focused on specialized sensing, control, and instrumentation technologies critical to signature management, hydrodynamic performance, and underwater platform survivability. His work directly enables the integration of next-generation sensors, propulsion monitoring systems, and industrial process control instrumentation into naval vessels and underwater platforms, ensuring operational superiority through technical innovation. Pohlman maintains sustained contracting relationships with leading defense and aerospace contractors including BAE Systems Land & Armaments L.P., Goodrich Corp, and Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, as well as specialized engineering firms such as Westmoreland Mechanical Testing & Research, Inc. and the CB Design & Huitt Zollars Joint Venture. These partnerships reflect a preference for established industry players with proven expertise in high-reliability instrumentation, mechanical testing, and naval systems integration, indicating a focus on mission-critical, low-risk procurement strategies grounded in technical rigor and performance history. His procurement approach is predominantly non-set-aside, with 85.7% of awards issued under full and open competition, reflecting the specialized nature of the technologies required. However, he consistently allocates 14.3% of awards to total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a measured but active commitment to small business participation without compromising technical requirements. Pohlman’s primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 334519 (Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing) and 334513 (Industrial Process Instrumentation), with significant activity in electronic computer manufacturing and precision machine shop services. He routinely acquires custom sensors, data acquisition systems, hydrodynamic measurement devices, and embedded control hardware essential to naval system testing and evaluation, underscoring deep technical expertise in maritime instrumentation and systems integration.