Hannah Puchkoris

Hannah Puchkoris 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 Navy and Marine Corps. Her work directly enables NAVAIR’s mission to modernize carrier-based and expeditionary aircraft fleets through timely, compliant, and technically sound contract execution. Puchkoris specializes in full-spectrum procurement activities—from initial requirement validation through contract award and performance oversight—focusing on high-integrity, mission-critical hardware and integrated systems. She maintains consistent, long-term contracting relationships with leading defense aerospace primes including Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and General Atomics. These partnerships center on the procurement of specialized aircraft parts, propulsion systems, mission avionics, and support equipment. Her procurement approach emphasizes technical rigor, supply chain resilience, and performance-based contracting, often leveraging Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) and Other Transaction Authority (OTA) mechanisms to accelerate fielding of next-generation capabilities. Puchkoris’s contracting portfolio reflects a strong preference for full and open competition, with 100% of awards issued under no set-aside classifications. This underscores a strategic focus on leveraging the broadest industrial base to meet demanding technical requirements, rather than socioeconomic set-asides. While small business participation is not formally prioritized in her award patterns, she ensures compliance with all federal subcontracting goals and encourages tiered supplier engagement across the defense industrial base. Her primary procurement focus is concentrated in NAICS 336413—Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing—reflecting deep expertise in sourcing specialized components such as flight control actuators, radar integration modules, and mission-specific avionics. She routinely manages contracts for systems requiring stringent MIL-SPEC compliance, environmental testing, and integration with naval aircraft platforms, demonstrating technical fluency in aerospace engineering and defense logistics domains.