Gabrielle McKee

Gabrielle McKee serves as the primary contracting professional at the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, where she leads the acquisition of advanced avionics, electronic warfare systems, and mission-critical aircraft subsystems essential to maintaining naval air superiority. Her role centers on managing full lifecycle procurements—from market research and solicitation to contract award and administration—ensuring alignment with the agency’s strategic modernization goals. She specializes in complex technical acquisitions involving integrated sensor suites, secure communications networks, and real-time data processing systems for next-generation naval aircraft platforms. McKee maintains longstanding partnerships with key industry leaders 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 balanced approach to procurement, combining large prime contractors with specialized small business subcontractors to deliver high-performance, mission-essential capabilities. Her contracting patterns emphasize technical rigor, performance-based outcomes, and systems integration across airborne platforms. A strong advocate for small business participation, McKee consistently structures procurements with a 51.5% total small business set-aside rate under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a deliberate commitment to socioeconomic contracting goals. While no set-aside remains prevalent, her portfolio actively prioritizes small disadvantaged, service-disabled veteran-owned, and HUBZone firms as subcontractors and prime contractors alike, reinforcing the agency’s mandate for broad industry engagement. Her procurement focus is concentrated in NAICS 334220 (radio and wireless communications equipment), 334310 (audio/video equipment), and 513210 (software publishing), reflecting deep expertise in airborne communication systems, embedded software, and signal processing technologies. She regularly acquires mission-critical hardware and software solutions that enable electronic attack, navigation integrity, and sensor fusion for naval aviation platforms.