Kathryn King

Kathryn King serves as a Contract Specialist at the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, where she plays a pivotal role in executing complex acquisitions for advanced naval aviation systems. She manages the full lifecycle of contracts supporting the development, testing, and sustainment of mission-critical avionics, electronic warfare suites, and airborne sensor technologies. Her work directly enables the agency’s strategic priorities in modernizing next-generation aircraft platforms and maintaining operational readiness across the fleet. Kathryn specializes in sole-source and competitive procurements for high-technical-risk systems, ensuring compliance with DoD acquisition regulations and technical performance requirements. She maintains consistent, long-term partnerships with industry leaders including SABRE SYSTEMS, LLC, THE BOEING COMPANY, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, INC., and ONTIC ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC. These relationships are built on deep technical collaboration, often involving engineering services, systems integration, and prototype development for classified and unclassified aviation programs. Kathryn works closely with these prime contractors to align deliverables with Navy aviation roadmaps, ensuring seamless transition from R&D to fleet sustainment. Kathryn’s procurement portfolio is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted under full and open competition. This reflects a deliberate focus on accessing the broadest possible pool of technical expertise, particularly for mission-critical systems requiring specialized capabilities not typically available among small businesses. While she does not prioritize socioeconomic set-asides, her contracting approach ensures rigorous evaluation of technical merit, past performance, and system readiness. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 481219 (Other Nonscheduled Air Transportation) and NAICS 336414/336419 (Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing and Parts), reflecting her specialization in airborne test platforms, avionics integration, and mission system components. She routinely procures engineering services, flight test support, signal processing hardware, and embedded software systems essential to naval air superiority initiatives.