Jessica De Long

Jessica De Long serves as a key procurement professional within the FA8119 unit of the Department of the Air Force, responsible for managing complex acquisitions to sustain and modernize critical aerospace systems for the B-2 Spirit bomber and other strategic platforms. Her work directly supports operational readiness by securing specialized aircraft components, mission-critical avionics, and engineering support services essential to extending the service life of legacy systems. She handles full lifecycle contracts—including design, repair, integration, and technical support—for high-reliability aviation systems, ensuring compliance with Air Force technical specifications and defense acquisition regulations. De Long maintains strategic relationships with a select group of Tier 1 and Tier 2 aerospace suppliers specializing in precision manufacturing and avionics integration. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages firms with proven expertise in military-grade component fabrication, systems engineering, and reverse engineering of obsolete parts. Her contracting approach emphasizes technical capability, supply chain resilience, and long-term sustainment partnerships over short-term cost savings. Her procurement activity is entirely non-set-aside, reflecting the mission-critical nature of the systems she supports and the narrow pool of qualified vendors with the necessary security clearances, ITAR compliance, and specialized manufacturing capabilities. There is no current preference for 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides, as the technical demands of the work require highly specialized, often large-scale industrial capabilities not yet widely available among small business concerns. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 336413, encompassing other aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing, with secondary emphasis on NAICS 334511 for avionics and navigation systems and NAICS 334220 for secure wireless communications hardware. She specializes in procuring flight-critical components such as radar warning receivers, digital flight control modules, and embedded computing systems, demonstrating deep technical fluency in aerospace sustainment and defense electronics integration.