Edna A Gigon

Edna A. Gigon serves as a Contracting Officer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division, where she plays a pivotal role in acquiring critical ordnance systems, precision instrumentation, and advanced detection technologies essential to naval warfare readiness. Her portfolio centers on the development, testing, and sustainment of explosives and weapon system components, ensuring compliance with stringent defense standards and operational reliability requirements. She manages full lifecycle procurements under FAR and DFARS frameworks, specializing in research, engineering services, and specialized manufacturing contracts that support the modernization of naval munitions capabilities. Gigon maintains consistent working relationships with a select group of specialized vendors, including TOTAL CONCEPTS OF DESIGN INC, Boh Environmental, L.L.C., CHUCKING MACHINE PRODUCTS, INC., CANADIAN COMMERCIAL CORP, and DEVAL LIFE CYCLE SUPPORT LLC. These partnerships reflect a focus on niche technical expertise in ordnance handling systems, environmental compliance for explosive facilities, precision machining, and life cycle support services. Her contracting approach emphasizes long-term collaboration with vendors possessing deep domain knowledge in defense-specific engineering and safety-critical manufacturing environments. A steadfast advocate for small business participation, Gigon exclusively utilizes Total Small Business Set-Aside authorities under FAR 19.5, ensuring that all procurements are reserved for small business concerns. This pattern underscores a deliberate strategy to cultivate a robust supplier base of agile, innovative firms capable of meeting the Navy’s evolving ordnance requirements while promoting economic opportunity within the defense industrial base. Her procurement activities are narrowly focused on NAICS 334511, encompassing the design, development, and manufacturing of search, detection, navigation, and guidance systems for naval ordnance applications. She routinely acquires advanced instrumentation, control systems, and safety-critical hardware integral to munitions testing and handling, demonstrating specialized expertise in high-reliability, mission-critical defense electronics and sensor technologies.