LCDR Joshua Hill

Joshua R. Hill serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), supporting the acquisition and lifecycle sustainment of critical naval aviation systems. He manages complex contract actions for advanced aircraft platforms, avionics, and mission-critical aerospace components, ensuring alignment with the Navy and Marine Corps’ operational readiness goals. His work directly supports NAVAIR’s mission to maintain air superiority through integrated systems development, testing, and fielding, with a focus on carrier-based and expeditionary aviation assets. Hill typically handles full-and-open competitive procurements under the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, coordinating with engineering, logistics, and program management teams to translate technical requirements into enforceable contractual deliverables. His primary contractor relationships are with industry leaders in military aerospace, including Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and General Atomics, reflecting a consistent reliance on prime contractors with proven expertise in rotary-wing and unmanned aerial systems, weapons integration, and mission systems engineering. These partnerships are characterized by long-term sustainment contracts, technical service agreements, and performance-based logistics arrangements, indicating a strategic preference for trusted vendors with deep domain knowledge and established production capabilities. Hill’s procurement portfolio exhibits no set-aside preferences, with 100% of awards issued under full-and-open competition. This reflects a mission-driven prioritization of technical capability and operational readiness over socioeconomic set-asides, consistent with NAVAIR’s focus on high-performance, mission-critical systems where specialized expertise and scale are non-negotiable. His procurement activity is concentrated in NAICS 336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing) and 336413 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing), indicating deep specialization in the acquisition of manned and unmanned aerial platforms, flight control systems, propulsion components, and mission-specific avionics. His technical domain expertise spans next-generation naval aviation systems, including stealth technologies, sensor fusion, and integrated weapons architectures.