Jennifer Ede

Jennifer Ede serves as a key procurement professional within Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA HQ), supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to sustain and modernize the U.S. Fleet through strategic acquisition of mission-critical naval systems. She manages complex contracting actions for shipbuilding, repair, and advanced naval electronics, ensuring alignment with lifecycle support requirements and fleet readiness objectives. Her portfolio encompasses major platform integration efforts, including combat systems, navigation instrumentation, and maritime electronic warfare components, with a focus on delivering technologically superior capabilities to surface and undersea warfare domains. Ede maintains longstanding relationships with prime contractors including Huntington Ingalls Incorporated, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Damen Shipbuilding & Cooperation B.V., G.S.E. Dynamics, Inc., and Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC. These partnerships reflect a preference for established defense industrial base vendors with proven expertise in naval architecture, systems integration, and high-reliability electronics manufacturing. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based requirements, technical rigor, and risk mitigation through vendor qualification and systems engineering collaboration. Her procurement activity is entirely non-set-aside, reflecting a strategic focus on acquiring mission-critical capabilities from qualified large-scale defense contractors capable of meeting the scale, security, and technical complexity of naval platforms. There is no current use of 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic set-asides, indicating a prioritization of capability and capacity over socioeconomic preferences in this portfolio. Ede’s primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing) and 334511 (Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing). She routinely oversees contracts for hull structural systems, propulsion integration, sonar arrays, radar suites, and electronic navigation instrumentation—domains requiring stringent MIL-SPEC compliance and defense-grade quality assurance protocols. Her expertise centers on the acquisition of integrated combat systems and platform-enabling technologies critical to naval superiority.