Juanita E. Harvey

Juanita E. Harvey serves as an Acquisition Specialist within the C5I Division 3 Portsmouth of the U.S. Coast Guard, where she leads the planning, solicitation, and award of complex technical contracts to modernize command, control, communications, computers, cyber, and intelligence (C5I) systems. Her work directly supports maritime domain awareness, search and rescue, and national security operations by ensuring the procurement of advanced surveillance, navigation, and secure communication technologies. She specializes in engineering services acquisitions, managing the full lifecycle of contracts from requirement validation through contract closeout, with a strong emphasis on mission-critical infrastructure resilience and cybersecurity compliance. Harvey maintains a consistent partnership with Trimble Inc., a key provider of precision positioning, navigation, and geospatial solutions critical to Coast Guard operational systems. Her contracting approach fosters long-term vendor collaboration, particularly with firms capable of delivering integrated C5I architectures, system integration services, and cybersecurity-enhanced hardware and software platforms. She prioritizes vendors with proven expertise in defense-grade systems and agile development methodologies to meet evolving operational demands. Her procurement strategy is exclusively focused on 8(a) competed set-asides, reflecting a robust commitment to socioeconomic equity and small business development. All of her acquisitions are structured to maximize opportunities for small disadvantaged businesses, ensuring that innovative, mission-aligned small firms contribute directly to the Coast Guard’s technological modernization efforts. Harvey’s primary procurement focus is under NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services), where she secures specialized technical services including systems engineering, cybersecurity architecture, signal processing, and embedded software development. Her domain expertise centers on maritime-specific C5I systems, with an emphasis on interoperability, real-time data fusion, and secure network modernization to sustain operational readiness across all maritime domains.