Judith Heppe

Judith Heppe 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 focused on the repair, maintenance, and technical servicing of naval aircraft, avionics, and mission-critical equipment, ensuring operational readiness through reliable, high-integrity contract execution. Her work directly enables the Center’s strategic goals in predictive maintenance and digital technical documentation integration, with a consistent emphasis on performance-based contracting and lifecycle support for legacy and emerging systems. Heppe maintains strong, ongoing relationships with specialized contractors including Crankworks, Inc., Furnacare Inc., and Carteret Fire Control, LLC—vendors recognized for their expertise in industrial machinery repair, precision component servicing, and fire control system maintenance. These partnerships reflect a preference for niche, technically capable firms capable of delivering complex, non-standard maintenance solutions under strict naval specifications. Her contracting patterns indicate a reliance on long-term vendor collaboration, often leveraging performance metrics and technical compliance to ensure mission-critical equipment remains mission-ready. She consistently applies a 100% small business set-aside approach under FAR 19.5, demonstrating an unwavering commitment to socioeconomic contracting goals. All her acquisitions are reserved exclusively for small businesses, creating predictable opportunities for qualified firms with specialized technical capabilities in industrial maintenance. This pattern underscores a deliberate strategy to cultivate a resilient, agile small business industrial base capable of supporting naval aviation sustainment needs. Her procurement focus is narrowly aligned with NAICS 811310, Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Repair and Maintenance, reflecting deep expertise in the servicing of non-automotive, non-electronic industrial systems. She procures precision repair services for aircraft support equipment, hydraulic systems, mechanical controls, and other mission-critical hardware, requiring technical knowledge of military specifications, maintenance manuals, and quality assurance protocols unique to naval aviation.