Joanna Schwab

Joanna Schwab serves as a key procurement professional within the Fleet Readiness Center, supporting the U.S. Navy’s mission to sustain and modernize aviation and maritime combat systems. She manages acquisitions for critical maintenance, repair, and technical services essential to maintaining fleet readiness, with a focus on avionics, mission-critical equipment, and digital technical documentation systems. Her work directly enables the Center’s strategic priorities in predictive maintenance and legacy system modernization, ensuring naval aircraft and support infrastructure remain operationally viable. Schwab handles a diverse portfolio of contracts spanning engineering services, industrial repair, and telecommunications infrastructure, aligning acquisitions with Navy-wide readiness goals. She maintains consistent working relationships with core contractors including CraneWorks, Inc., Furnacare Inc., and Carteret Fire Control, LLC, each of which provides specialized expertise in industrial machinery repair, thermal management systems, and fire control component maintenance. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with deep technical capabilities in naval aviation support environments, often requiring certified maintenance protocols and compliance with military technical specifications. Schwab’s procurement approach emphasizes reliability, technical compliance, and long-term service continuity over transactional sourcing. Schwab demonstrates a strong commitment to small business participation, with 40% of her acquisitions set aside for total small businesses under FAR 19.5, while 60% remain open to all competitors. Her contracting patterns reflect a balanced approach that prioritizes small business inclusion without compromising mission-critical performance requirements, consistently awarding to firms capable of meeting stringent Navy technical standards. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 517111 (wired telecommunications carriers), supporting avionics data networks and secure communication systems, followed by 811310 for industrial machinery repair and 332710 for precision machine shop services. She also procures specialized fabricated metal components and professional technical services critical to sustaining naval aircraft systems, demonstrating deep familiarity with the technical domains of aviation maintenance, electronic system integration, and industrial support infrastructure.