Jessica Barton

Jessica Barton 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 naval platforms and mission-critical systems. She manages complex contracting actions for shipbuilding, repair, and advanced weapons system integration, ensuring alignment with lifecycle support requirements and fleet readiness objectives. Her portfolio emphasizes high-impact, technically sophisticated procurements that enable next-generation surface and undersea warfare capabilities, with a focus on full-spectrum vessel modernization and integrated combat systems. Barton maintains consistent working relationships with prime contractors including Damen Shipbuilding & Cooperation B.V., Huntington Ingalls Incorporated, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, G.S.E. Dynamics, Inc., and Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC. These partnerships reflect a balanced approach to sourcing from large, vertically integrated defense contractors and specialized technology providers with deep expertise in naval architecture, guided missile systems, and shipboard electronics. Her contracting patterns demonstrate a preference for long-term, performance-based agreements that ensure technical fidelity and sustainment readiness across the fleet. Her procurement strategy reflects an equitable balance between full and open competition and small business set-asides, with approximately half of her actions designated as Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5. This underscores a deliberate commitment to expanding opportunities for small, innovative firms while maintaining access to the industrial base necessary for complex naval systems. She actively cultivates partnerships with small businesses capable of delivering specialized components, subsystems, and technical services critical to modernization efforts. Barton’s primary focus lies within NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing) and 336414 (Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing), reflecting her expertise in procuring combat systems, propulsion integration, hull structural upgrades, and missile launch infrastructure. She specializes in acquisitions involving electro-optical systems, sonar arrays, and integrated combat management software, ensuring naval platforms maintain technological superiority in contested maritime environments.