Heather Geary

Heather Geary serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), supporting the lifecycle management of naval aviation systems through strategic acquisition planning and contract execution. She specializes in the procurement of advanced aircraft components and auxiliary equipment critical to maintaining air superiority for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Her work directly enables NAVAIR’s mission to modernize carrier-based and expeditionary aviation platforms, ensuring operational readiness through timely delivery of mission-critical hardware and integration support. Geary routinely manages complex, technical acquisitions involving avionics, propulsion subsystems, and mission systems integration, often coordinating across engineering, logistics, and test communities to align contracting actions with operational requirements. Her primary contractor relationships are with industry leaders in aerospace and defense, including Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and General Atomics. These partnerships reflect a focus on large prime contractors with proven capabilities in designing and manufacturing high-performance aviation systems. Geary’s contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, systems integration, and sustainment support, often leveraging long-term contract vehicles to ensure continuity of supply and technical expertise across platform life cycles. Geary’s procurement portfolio shows no use of socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic emphasis on accessing the broadest possible industrial base for technically complex, high-stakes aviation systems where specialized capabilities are concentrated among a limited number of qualified vendors. Her primary procurement focus is under NAICS 336413—Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing—indicating deep expertise in sourcing specialized components such as flight control actuators, avionics enclosures, and mission-specific support hardware. She operates at the intersection of engineering specifications and contractual compliance, ensuring procurement actions align with rigorous military standards for airworthiness, reliability, and interoperability across naval aviation platforms.