Janet L. Baker

Janet L. Baker serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, supporting the development, testing, and sustainment of advanced naval aviation systems. She manages complex acquisition programs focused on integrating cutting-edge avionics, mission-critical aircraft subsystems, and electronic warfare technologies into next-generation platforms. Her work directly enables the Navy’s strategic priorities in air superiority and fleet readiness, overseeing full lifecycle contracts from research and development through production and sustainment. Baker specializes in high-technical-acquisition categories requiring rigorous systems engineering, flight certification, and interoperability validation across manned and unmanned aerial platforms. She maintains enduring partnerships with industry leaders including SABRE SYSTEMS, LLC, THE BOEING COMPANY, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, INC., and ONTIC ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC. These relationships reflect a consistent focus on prime contractors with deep expertise in aerospace systems integration, flight control architecture, and mission systems modernization. Baker’s contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, technical rigor, and long-term sustainment capability, fostering collaborative engagements that prioritize innovation and operational reliability over transactional procurement. Baker’s procurement portfolio reflects a strict preference for full and open competition, with 100% of her awards issued under no set-aside classifications. This indicates a strategic focus on leveraging the broadest possible industrial base to meet demanding technical requirements, rather than socioeconomic set-asides. While small business participation is not formally prioritized in her award patterns, her reliance on established aerospace primes suggests a preference for proven systems integrators with mature quality and compliance frameworks. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing), reflecting deep engagement in the design, integration, and production of manned aircraft systems and associated subsystems. She also engages NAICS 336414 for guided missile and space vehicle-related technologies, underscoring her technical domain expertise in airborne sensor suites, communication networks, and electronic attack systems. Her acquisitions consistently target advanced hardware, embedded software, and mission-critical firmware integral to naval air operations.