Gabrielle Giles

Gabrielle Giles serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Research Laboratory, supporting the agency’s mission to advance cutting-edge scientific and technological capabilities for naval and national security. She manages a portfolio of research and development contracts focused on high-precision sensors, electronic warfare systems, signal processing architectures, and autonomous navigation technologies. Her work directly enables the lab’s foundational R&D initiatives by facilitating the acquisition of specialized engineering services and advanced instrumentation critical to next-generation maritime systems. Giles operates within a highly technical acquisition environment, ensuring compliance with federal contracting standards while aligning procurements with strategic DoN innovation priorities. She maintains consistent working relationships with a select group of prime contractors including Assurance Technology Corp, L3Harris NexGen Communications LLC, Envisioneering Inc, Integration Innovation Inc, and Analex Corporation. These partners are frequently engaged for their expertise in developing and integrating sophisticated electronic systems, analytical instrumentation, and signal analysis platforms. Giles favors long-term, performance-based contract vehicles that support iterative development and rapid prototyping, fostering collaborative partnerships with vendors capable of delivering mission-critical capabilities under stringent technical and security requirements. Giles demonstrates a strong commitment to small business participation, with approximately 70% of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. Her contracting patterns reflect a deliberate focus on enabling small firms with specialized technical capabilities in physical sciences and instrumentation, ensuring broad innovation input from non-traditional and emerging industry players. This approach supports the Department of the Navy’s broader socioeconomic goals while enhancing competition and technological diversity in critical R&D domains. Her procurement activity is heavily concentrated in NAICS 541715 for research and development in physical and engineering sciences, complemented by targeted acquisitions under NAICS 334516 and 334515 for analytical laboratory instruments and electrical signal measurement systems. She specializes in procuring custom-engineered hardware, embedded firmware, and testbed systems that support experimental naval technologies, requiring deep technical understanding of electromagnetic systems, sensor fusion, and real-time data acquisition architectures.