Elaine M Gehre

Elaine M. Gehre serves as a MUE Systems Engineer within the FA8823 Sustainment MCPNT SSC/PKL under the Department of the Air Force, where she provides critical technical oversight for the sustainment and modernization of aerospace and space-based defense systems. Her role bridges engineering expertise with acquisition strategy, ensuring that procurement decisions align with operational requirements for guided missile systems, satellite communications, and global positioning infrastructure. She actively participates in the development of statement of work, technical evaluation criteria, and requirement validation for complex systems acquisitions, typically managing engineering services, software integration, and hardware sustainment contracts essential to maintaining mission-critical space and missile capabilities. While specific contractor relationships are not currently available in the dataset, her position routinely interfaces with defense primes and specialized systems integrators experienced in space domain awareness, RF communications, and embedded avionics. She collaborates with vendors possessing deep domain knowledge in secure satellite payloads, navigation signal integrity, and ground control segment modernization, fostering partnerships grounded in technical rigor and lifecycle support capabilities. Elaine’s procurement activities reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted without set-aside designations, indicating a focus on technical merit and mission necessity over socioeconomic categorization. This approach prioritizes capability over certification, ensuring the most qualified providers—regardless of size or status—are selected based on performance and system compatibility. Her technical domain centers on NAICS categories related to aerospace product and parts manufacturing, defense electronics, and satellite communications services. She routinely procures advanced navigation systems, secure data links, command and control software, and radiation-hardened hardware, demonstrating expertise in space systems engineering, RF architecture, and DoD acquisition compliance frameworks such as MIL-STD and DoDIN standards.