Gracie Doran

Gracie Doran serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (N00253), supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to advance undersea warfare technologies. She manages complex acquisitions for mission-critical systems including sonar arrays, underwater signal processing hardware, ruggedized computing platforms, and electronic warfare instrumentation. Her work directly enables the development, testing, and sustainment of submarine and unmanned undersea vehicle capabilities, ensuring technological superiority in contested maritime environments. Doran handles a diverse portfolio of contracts spanning engineering services, specialized manufacturing, and environmental compliance, aligning procurement activities with the Navy’s strategic imperatives in undersea dominance. Doran maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of specialized contractors, including Ordnance Technology Service, Inc., Boh Environmental, L.L.C., Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, McKenzie Construction & Site Development LLC, and EOS of North America, Inc. These partnerships reflect a preference for niche vendors with proven expertise in defense-grade electronics, hazardous waste handling, and precision instrumentation. Her contracting approach emphasizes long-term vendor collaboration, technical validation, and compliance with military specifications, ensuring reliable delivery of mission-essential components under austere operational conditions. Her procurement patterns show a strong preference for open competition, with 83.3% of awards issued without set-asides, reflecting the technical specificity and limited vendor base required for undersea systems. However, she consistently allocates 16.7% of contracts to Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a measured commitment to small business participation without compromising technical rigor or operational readiness. Doran’s primary NAICS focus areas include semiconductor and related device manufacturing (334413), instrument manufacturing for electrical signal testing (334515), industrial valve manufacturing (332911), miscellaneous electrical equipment (335999), and hazardous waste treatment and disposal (562211). These reflect a technical domain centered on electronic sensors, ruggedized avionics, fluid control systems, and environmental compliance infrastructure essential to undersea platform sustainment.