Kathryn Matisick

Kathryn Matisick serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), supporting the lifecycle acquisition and sustainment of advanced naval aviation systems. She manages complex contracts for mission-critical aerospace and missile technologies, ensuring alignment with the Navy and Marine Corps’ strategic modernization goals. Her work centers on the acquisition of guided missile components, propulsion systems, and aircraft platforms, often involving high-technology integration and systems engineering support. Matisick plays a vital role in executing NAVAIR’s mission to maintain air superiority through timely, compliant, and technically rigorous contracting actions that span development, testing, and long-term logistics sustainment. She maintains consistent contracting relationships with leading defense primes including Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and General Atomics, partnering with organizations that deliver advanced aerospace platforms, unmanned systems, and precision-guided munitions. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting and technical risk mitigation, often engaging contractors with proven expertise in classified and export-controlled programs. These partnerships are characterized by long-term sustainment engagements and iterative technology insertion, reflecting a focus on operational readiness and systems interoperability. Matisick’s contracting portfolio reflects a strong preference for full and open competition, with 100% of her awards issued without set-aside designations. This indicates a strategic emphasis on leveraging the broadest possible industrial base to meet urgent technical requirements, rather than targeting socioeconomic categories such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. Her approach prioritizes capability, scalability, and mission-critical performance over socioeconomic preferences. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 336419 (Other Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing), with significant activity in propulsion systems (336415) and aircraft manufacturing (336411). She specializes in acquiring advanced avionics, missile guidance components, and integrated weapon systems for carrier-based and expeditionary aircraft, demonstrating deep technical fluency in aerospace defense systems and their supporting supply chains.