Jessica L. Oster

Jessica L. Oster serves as a key procurement professional within the Air Force Test Center’s PZZD (Eglin), supporting the development and integration of advanced airborne systems, guided missile technologies, and mission-critical avionics. She manages acquisitions centered on research, development, and live-fire testing of next-generation sensing, navigation, and electronic warfare systems, ensuring rapid prototyping and threat simulation capabilities meet operational readiness requirements. Her work directly enables the agency’s mission to validate and field cutting-edge air dominance technologies through structured contracting processes aligned with DoD innovation priorities. Oster maintains a consistent working relationship with WAVELINK INC, a primary contractor providing specialized engineering services for advanced avionics integration, target system development, and electronic warfare test instrumentation. Her procurement patterns reflect a preference for established technical partners with proven expertise in high-fidelity simulation, sensor fusion, and rapid prototyping, indicating a reliance on vendors capable of delivering complex, classified, and time-sensitive capabilities under stringent performance metrics. Her contracting activity shows no use of socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a mission-driven focus on technical capability over socioeconomic criteria, prioritizing speed, performance, and system interoperability in high-stakes test and evaluation environments where only a limited pool of qualified vendors can meet operational requirements. Oster’s portfolio is exclusively aligned with NAICS 541712—Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences—focusing on engineering services for airborne systems, radar and electro-optical sensor development, guided munitions integration, and electronic attack countermeasure testing. She procures advanced technical services including hardware-in-the-loop testing, signal processing algorithms, and live-fire data acquisition systems, demonstrating deep expertise in defense R&D procurement within the aerospace and electronic warfare domains.