Jennifer Mountjoy

Jennifer Mountjoy serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, overseeing the acquisition of advanced engineering services critical to the development and sustainment of next-generation naval aviation systems. She plays a central role in executing the agency’s mission to modernize airborne sensor suites, enhance electronic warfare capabilities, and maintain legacy aircraft subsystems through technically complex, mission-critical contracts. Her portfolio is focused exclusively on engineering services, ensuring that cutting-edge avionics, communications, and mission systems are integrated into naval aircraft platforms with rigorous technical oversight and compliance. Mountjoy manages the full acquisition lifecycle—from requirements definition to contract award and administration—supporting both innovation and operational readiness across the fleet. She maintains sustained working relationships with leading defense engineering 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 deep technical collaboration on classified and unclassified projects involving systems integration, modeling and simulation, and avionics modernization. Her contracting approach emphasizes long-term vendor engagement, performance-based outcomes, and adherence to stringent military specifications, fostering trusted relationships with industry partners capable of delivering high-assurance aerospace solutions. Mountjoy demonstrates an unwavering commitment to small business participation, directing 100% of her acquisitions under the Total Small Business Set-Aside authority (FAR 19.5). This reflects a deliberate strategy to empower small, innovative firms with specialized technical capabilities in aerospace engineering, ensuring broad industry participation and fostering competition among qualified small business concerns. Her contracting patterns consistently prioritize small business eligibility and socioeconomic compliance, aligning with Department of Defense goals to expand the defense industrial base. Her procurement focus is entirely centered on NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services), encompassing systems engineering, technical analysis, software development for mission systems, and integration of electronic warfare and navigation subsystems. She specializes in acquiring services that support the lifecycle management of airborne platforms, with deep domain expertise in avionics architecture, radar signal processing, and secure communications integration for naval aviation.