Justin Brown

Justin Brown serves as a key procurement professional within Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to advance maritime warfare capabilities through the acquisition of advanced naval systems. He manages a portfolio of engineering and technical services contracts focused on sensor development, electronic warfare components, navigation systems, and integrated communication architectures critical to undersea, surface, and aerial domain superiority. His acquisitions are strategically aligned with RDT&E objectives, ensuring that cutting-edge technologies are rapidly fielded to maintain naval advantage. Brown’s work directly enables the testing, evaluation, and integration of next-generation maritime platforms and subsystems. He maintains longstanding partnerships with leading defense and aerospace contractors including Science Applications International Corporation, Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, Astronics Test Systems Inc, Serco Inc, and Mikel Inc. These relationships are characterized by deep technical collaboration, with vendors providing specialized engineering support for sonar arrays, signal processing systems, and embedded avionics. Brown consistently engages with firms possessing proven expertise in naval systems integration, emphasizing performance-based contracting and rigorous technical validation. Brown exhibits a strong and consistent commitment to socioeconomic contracting, directing 100% of his acquisitions toward total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to cultivate innovation from small, agile vendors capable of delivering niche capabilities in naval technology. His contracting patterns prioritize small businesses with proven technical competence in defense-related engineering services, fostering a robust supplier base aligned with Navy innovation goals. His procurement focus is exclusively centered on NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services), encompassing systems engineering, test and evaluation, embedded software development, and hardware integration for naval platforms. He routinely procures services related to sonar signal processing, electronic countermeasures, underwater acoustic modeling, and communication protocol development, demonstrating deep domain expertise in maritime electronic systems and defense RDT&E procurement.