Eileen Emond

Eileen D. Emond serves as a Contract Negotiator at Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport, where she plays a critical role in securing advanced maritime technologies that support naval dominance across undersea, surface, and aerial domains. Responsible for negotiating complex procurements under N66604, she specializes in acquisitions for sensor systems, electronic warfare components, and integrated communication platforms essential to naval R&D and testing. Her work directly enables the agency’s mission to develop and evaluate next-generation maritime capabilities, ensuring technical requirements are met through compliant, performance-based contracting strategies. Emond maintains strong, sustained relationships with key industry partners including Science Applications International Corporation, Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, Astronics Test Systems Inc, Serco Inc, and Mikel Inc. These contractors provide specialized engineering services, test equipment, and mission-critical electronic systems, reflecting a preference for established vendors with proven expertise in defense-grade navigation, signal processing, and systems integration. Her negotiation approach emphasizes technical alignment, risk mitigation, and long-term partnership stability, fostering collaboration on high-stakes, mission-essential projects. While the majority of her acquisitions are unrestricted, Emond consistently supports small business participation, with approximately 23.3% of her portfolio allocated to Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5. She actively facilitates opportunities for qualified small businesses to contribute to naval innovation, demonstrating a balanced commitment to both mission readiness and socioeconomic contracting goals. Her procurement focus centers on NAICS 334511 for search, detection, and navigation systems; 334419 for specialized electronic components; and 541712 for physical and engineering research and development. She regularly procures sonar arrays, electronic countermeasure modules, underwater communication interfaces, and precision test instrumentation, underscoring her deep technical fluency in naval systems engineering and sensor technology domains.