Justin Midgett

Justin Midgett serves as a Small Business Specialist and APFS Coordinator for the U.S. Coast Guard, where he plays a pivotal role in advancing socioeconomic contracting objectives within the agency’s acquisition lifecycle. He supports the procurement mission by identifying, certifying, and integrating small business vendors into complex maritime and aerospace contracts, ensuring compliance with federal small business goals while aligning with the Coast Guard’s operational priorities in fleet sustainment, digital transformation, and shore infrastructure modernization. Midgett typically handles acquisitions spanning aerospace systems, software development, and air transportation support services, bridging technical requirements with socioeconomic compliance. Midgett maintains close working relationships with prime contractors including Huntington Ingalls Inc., Bollinger Shipyards Lockport, L.L.C., Airbus U.S. Space & Defense Inc., Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, and L3Harris Technologies Integrated Systems L.P. These partnerships reflect a focus on large-scale, mission-critical procurements in shipbuilding, defense systems integration, and facility modernization. His engagement with these vendors is characterized by proactive collaboration to facilitate small business subcontracting opportunities and ensure prime contractor compliance with small business utilization plans. While the majority of the Coast Guard’s acquisitions under his purview are non-set-aside (92.9%), Midgett actively promotes small business participation through targeted outreach and mentorship, consistently leveraging the 7.1% small business set-aside rate to connect SBs with subcontracting pathways in aerospace and software domains. His socioeconomic contracting patterns emphasize inclusion of small businesses in high-value technical supply chains rather than direct award set-asides. His primary procurement focus centers on NAICS 336413 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing), reflecting deep expertise in avionics, mission systems, and airborne sensor integration. He also manages significant software procurement under NAICS 513210, supporting command, control, and logistics platforms. His domain expertise spans defense aerospace systems, cybersecurity-enabled software solutions, and air transportation support services critical to Coast Guard operational readiness.