Jessica McTaggart

Jessica McTaggart serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (N61340), supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to modernize and sustain advanced aviation training systems. She manages the acquisition of mission-critical simulation platforms, immersive training environments, and integrated avionics infrastructure essential for pilot and aircrew readiness. Her portfolio encompasses complex systems engineering contracts for tactical combat training, curriculum-enabled simulators, and real-time mission rehearsal technologies, ensuring alignment with naval aviation operational requirements and future readiness goals. McTaggart maintains strategic relationships with primary contractors including STRACON SERVICES GROUP, LLC and FLIGHTSAFETY INTERNATIONAL INC, both of which provide high-fidelity flight simulators, synthetic training environments, and mission-specific training system integration services. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for established industry partners with proven expertise in aerospace simulation and avionics sustainment, indicating a focus on reliability, technical maturity, and long-term system support rather than frequent vendor turnover. Her acquisition strategy exhibits no reliance on socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of contracts awarded under full and open competition. This reflects a prioritization of technical capability and operational readiness over socioeconomic preferences, consistent with the specialized nature of naval aviation training systems where mission-critical performance is paramount. McTaggart’s procurement activity is exclusively concentrated in NAICS 333310, Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing, underscoring her specialization in procuring complex, high-end training hardware and integrated systems. Her work centers on acquiring advanced flight simulators, motion platforms, embedded training systems, and mission-critical training infrastructure—domains requiring deep technical understanding of aviation systems engineering, real-time simulation, and human-in-the-loop validation protocols.