Kate Wisniewski

Kate Wisniewski serves as a key procurement professional within Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSYSCOM), supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to sustain and modernize the U.S. Fleet through strategic acquisition of naval platforms and mission-critical systems. She manages complex contracting actions for shipbuilding, repair, and advanced engineering services, ensuring alignment with naval operational requirements and lifecycle support objectives. Her work directly enables the integration of next-generation technologies into surface and undersea platforms, with a focus on maintaining fleet readiness and technological superiority. She routinely oversees full and open competitions for high-priority defense acquisitions, ensuring compliance with federal procurement regulations and Navy-specific acquisition policies. Wisniewski maintains established working relationships with leading defense contractors including Damen Shipbuilding & Cooperation B.V., Huntington Ingalls Incorporated, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, G.S.E. Dynamics, Inc., and Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC. These partnerships span vessel construction, systems integration, and specialized engineering services critical to naval modernization. Her contracting approach emphasizes long-term vendor collaboration, technical rigor, and performance-based outcomes, often involving multi-year, multi-phase contracts for complex maritime platforms and embedded electronic systems. Her procurement portfolio is exclusively composed of full and open competitions, with no set-asides designated for 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic categories. This reflects a strategic emphasis on leveraging the broadest possible industrial base to meet the Navy’s demanding technical and operational requirements, prioritizing capability, capacity, and schedule certainty over socioeconomic preferences. Her primary acquisition focus lies in NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing), NAICS 336612 (Boat Building), and NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services), reflecting deep expertise in naval vessel construction, maintenance, and systems engineering. She procures a wide array of mission-critical assets including warship hulls, propulsion systems, combat electronics, and integrated naval architecture services, ensuring the Navy’s technological edge in undersea and surface warfare domains.