Gillian Newman

Gillian Newman serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), supporting the lifecycle acquisition and sustainment of critical naval aviation systems. She manages complex contracting actions for advanced aircraft components, avionics, and auxiliary equipment essential to maintaining air superiority for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Her work directly supports NAVAIR’s mission to modernize carrier-based and expeditionary aircraft fleets through end-to-end acquisition planning, source selection, and contract administration for high-technology defense systems. Newman maintains consistent procurement relationships with leading aerospace and defense prime contractors, including Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and General Atomics. These partnerships focus on the development, integration, and logistical support of mission-critical systems such as rotary-wing platforms, unmanned aerial systems, and precision-guided munitions. Her contracting approach emphasizes long-term sustainment contracts, performance-based logistics, and technical oversight to ensure operational readiness and system interoperability across naval aviation platforms. Newman’s procurement portfolio reflects a strict focus on full and open competition, with no set-aside preferences applied across her awarded contracts. This indicates a strategic emphasis on leveraging the broadest possible industrial base to meet urgent operational requirements, prioritizing technical capability and system performance over socioeconomic categorizations. While small business participation is not formally targeted in her acquisitions, she operates within a framework that permits voluntary small business subcontracting under prime contracts. Her primary technical domain centers on NAICS 336413—Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing—where she procures specialized components including flight control systems, mission avionics, engine support hardware, and maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) kits. Her expertise lies in complex engineering-driven procurements requiring rigorous technical evaluation, compliance with military specifications, and integration with legacy and next-generation naval aircraft platforms.