Kathryn Balonek

Kathryn Balonek serves as a key procurement professional within Navfacsyscom Far East, supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to sustain and modernize critical infrastructure across the Indo-Pacific theater. She manages a diverse portfolio of construction, facility maintenance, and utility modernization contracts essential to operational readiness, ensuring that forward-deployed Navy and Marine Corps installations receive resilient, mission-critical facilities and environmental compliance solutions. Her acquisitions span base operating support, energy resilience projects, and infrastructure sustainment, requiring coordination with technical engineers, environmental specialists, and field commanders to align contracting outcomes with strategic readiness goals. Balonek maintains long-standing relationships with a core group of contractors including KANAGAWA NABCO PTY. LTD., MCKENZIE CONSTRUCTION & SITE DEVELOPMENT LLC, PAE DESIGN AND FACILITY MANAGEMENT, and ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE CORPORATION. These partnerships reflect a preference for experienced, geographically positioned firms capable of executing complex, multi-year projects in austere and high-demand operational environments. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting, quality assurance, and lifecycle management, fostering reliable vendor collaboration through consistent project pipelines and clear technical requirements. Her contracting activity reflects a strong preference for full and open competition, with 100% of awards issued under no set-aside classifications. This indicates a strategic focus on selecting the most capable performers regardless of socioeconomic status, prioritizing technical expertise, past performance, and geographic suitability over small business set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. While NAICS data is not available, her portfolio consistently targets construction, facility maintenance, environmental remediation, and utility systems modernization—domains requiring specialized knowledge in military construction standards, DoD environmental regulations, and energy resilience technologies. Her expertise lies in procuring integrated facility services that support sustained operational presence in the Indo-Pacific region.