Jessica D. Franceschini

Jessica D. Franceschini serves as a Purchasing Agent for the Commanding Officer (N63394) under the Department of the Navy, where she plays a critical role in sustaining and modernizing naval aviation and electronic warfare capabilities. She manages the acquisition of mission-critical aerospace components, advanced communications systems, and specialized engineering services essential to maintaining operational readiness. Her procurement activities are strategically aligned with the Navy’s priorities in sensor technology, electronic assembly, and cybersecurity-enabled infrastructure, ensuring timely delivery of high-integrity components for carrier-based and shore-based platforms. Franceschini routinely handles complex, technical solicitations requiring rigorous compliance with federal acquisition regulations and defense-specific standards. Her primary contractor relationships are anchored by long-standing partnerships with Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, and Lockheed Martin Corporation, reflecting a preference for established defense primes with proven capabilities in advanced avionics and integrated systems. She collaborates closely with these vendors on engineered solutions requiring custom design, qualification testing, and rapid prototyping, often under time-constrained operational timelines. While major primes dominate her portfolio, she maintains a balanced vendor ecosystem that includes niche suppliers capable of delivering specialized subsystems and mission-critical repairs. Franceschini demonstrates a strong commitment to small business participation, with 30.8% of her awards designated as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. While no other socioeconomic set-asides (e.g., 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB) are prominent, her consistent use of small business set-asides underscores a deliberate effort to foster innovation and resilience within the defense supply base. Her contracting patterns reflect a pragmatic balance between leveraging prime contractor scale and enabling small business contributions to niche technical domains. Her procurement focus centers on NAICS codes related to testing laboratories and services, industrial process furnaces, and miscellaneous chemical product manufacturing—areas critical to materials qualification, environmental testing, and specialized component fabrication. She specializes in procuring engineered solutions for high-reliability electronics, thermal management systems, and mission-critical chemical formulations used in naval aircraft and electronic warfare platforms.