Helen Choo

Helen H. Choo serves as a Contract Specialist at the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, where she plays a critical role in acquiring advanced aviation systems essential to maintaining naval air superiority. Her responsibilities encompass the full lifecycle of complex procurements for mission-critical avionics, electronic warfare subsystems, and airborne sensor integration. She specializes in engineering services and systems integration contracts that support the modernization and sustainment of next-generation naval aircraft platforms, ensuring alignment with Department of the Navy strategic objectives for technological readiness and operational resilience. Choo maintains established working relationships with leading defense and aerospace contractors including SABRE SYSTEMS, LLC, THE BOEING COMPANY, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, INC., and ONTIC ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC. These partnerships are characterized by long-term, performance-based contracting approaches that emphasize technical innovation, systems interoperability, and rigorous compliance with defense acquisition regulations. Her procurement strategy prioritizes collaboration with prime contractors capable of delivering integrated solutions across avionics, communications, and mission systems domains. While the majority of her acquisitions—87.2%—are competed without set-asides, Choo consistently supports small business participation through 8(a) and Total Small Business Set-Asides, each accounting for approximately 5.1% of her portfolio, with HUBZone set-asides representing 2.6%. This balanced approach reflects a deliberate commitment to fostering competition while expanding opportunities for qualified socioeconomic firms within the defense industrial base. Her procurement focus centers on NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services) and 481219 (Other Nonscheduled Air Transportation), with significant activity in instrumentation manufacturing (NAICS 334513 and 334515) and computing infrastructure (518210). She routinely acquires specialized hardware and software systems for flight control, signal processing, and data analytics, demonstrating deep expertise in technical domains critical to naval aviation modernization.