Elizabeth Stewart

Elizabeth Stewart serves as a Purchasing Agent at the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, where she plays a critical role in acquiring specialized avionics, electronic warfare systems, and analytical laboratory instrumentation essential to naval aviation modernization. Responsible for end-to-end procurement execution, she ensures compliance with federal acquisition regulations while supporting the development and sustainment of mission-critical airborne sensor suites and navigation subsystems. Her acquisitions are strategically aligned with the agency’s focus on advancing air superiority through cutting-edge technical integration, with an emphasis on rapid prototyping, test equipment, and legacy system upgrades. Stewart maintains consistent procurement partnerships with leading defense and aerospace 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 preference for established industry partners with proven expertise in high-reliability avionics, signal processing, and precision instrumentation. Her contracting approach emphasizes technical rigor, performance-based outcomes, and long-term sustainment support, fostering collaborative vendor engagement to meet the Navy’s evolving operational requirements. A defining feature of Stewart’s procurement strategy is her exclusive use of Total Small Business Set-Aside authority under FAR 19.5, ensuring 100% of her acquisitions are reserved for small businesses. This reflects a deep institutional commitment to socioeconomic equity and capability development within the defense industrial base, particularly for firms specializing in advanced manufacturing and analytical instrumentation. Her pattern of awarding contracts solely to small business concerns underscores a strategic effort to cultivate innovation and resilience through diversified supplier engagement. Her procurement portfolio is singularly focused on NAICS 334516—Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing—encompassing high-precision test and measurement devices, environmental simulation systems, and diagnostic instrumentation used in aircraft subsystem validation. This specialization highlights her technical fluency in laboratory-grade equipment procurement, supporting rigorous certification and flight readiness protocols critical to naval aviation safety and performance.