Julia M. Love

Julia M. Love serves as a key procurement professional within the SFLC Procurement Branch 1 (70Z080) of the U.S. Coast Guard, part of the Department of Homeland Security. She manages complex acquisitions focused on the construction, repair, and sustained maintenance of maritime vessels, ensuring operational readiness for coastal and open-ocean missions. Her work directly supports the Coast Guard’s strategic imperative to modernize and extend the service life of its cutter fleet through dry dock overhauls, propulsion system upgrades, and hull integrity restoration. She handles full lifecycle contracting for shipbuilding and repair services under the NAICS 336611 classification, coordinating with engineering, logistics, and technical teams to align contract requirements with naval specifications and regulatory compliance standards. Love maintains longstanding relationships with core shipyard and marine industrial contractors, including Fairbanks Morse, LLC, Bay Ship & Yacht Co, Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors, L.L.C., Automatic Coating Limited USA, and Technico Corporation. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with proven expertise in naval vessel fabrication, corrosion protection, and marine propulsion systems. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, technical compliance, and long-term sustainment capabilities, fostering collaborative, mission-critical vendor relationships grounded in quality and reliability. Her procurement patterns show a strong emphasis on open competition, with 75% of awards issued without set-aside restrictions. The remaining 25% are awarded under Total Small Business Set-Asides (FAR 19.5), reflecting a deliberate but measured commitment to small business participation without compromising technical or schedule requirements. She does not routinely utilize 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides, prioritizing capability and capacity over socioeconomic designations. Her domain expertise is singularly focused on NAICS 336611—Ship Building and Repairing—where she procures specialized marine systems, structural repairs, coating applications, and mechanical upgrades critical to vessel endurance. Her technical acumen spans naval architecture, dry dock protocols, and Coast Guard-specific maintenance standards, ensuring acquisitions align with operational mission demands.