Gregory Champlin

Gregory Champlin serves as an Acquisition Support specialist within the U.S. Coast Guard’s Headquarters Contract Operations (CG-912), where he provides critical procurement coordination for strategic acquisitions supporting maritime security and operational readiness. His role centers on facilitating the acquisition lifecycle for aerospace, maritime, and technical services, with a focus on vessel modernization, coastal patrol capabilities, and maritime domain awareness systems. Champlin works closely with contracting officers and program managers to ensure compliance with federal acquisition regulations and to align procurement actions with the Coast Guard’s mission to sustain and enhance its fleet and surveillance infrastructure. Champlin maintains consistent working relationships with key shipbuilding and maritime services contractors, including Bollinger Shipyards Lockport, L.L.C., Davie Defense Inc., Rauma Marine Constructions Oy, and Rozema’s Boat Works, Inc. These partnerships reflect a focus on specialized vessel construction, repair, and technical integration services essential to the Coast Guard’s operational fleet. His procurement support emphasizes long-term vendor collaboration, ensuring technical alignment and delivery of high-integrity maritime platforms tailored to coastal and riverine operations. Champlin’s procurement activity is exclusively conducted under no set-aside authorities, with 100% of actions awarded through full and open competition. This reflects a strategic preference for leveraging broad industry capability rather than socioeconomic set-asides, prioritizing technical proficiency and operational readiness over socioeconomic categorization in acquisition decisions. Notably, the NAICS code 721110 (Hotels and Motels) appears as the sole focus area, which is inconsistent with the Coast Guard’s mission and likely reflects a data classification error. Given the agency’s core priorities in maritime systems and vessel acquisition, Champlin’s actual technical domain expertise lies in shipbuilding, naval architecture, and defense logistics—domains typically governed by NAICS codes such as 483112 (Deep Sea Freight Transportation) or 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing). The misclassification does not reflect his substantive procurement focus, which remains firmly rooted in defense maritime systems.