Katie Keisling

Katie Keisling serves as a key procurement professional within Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSPEC), supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to sustain and modernize the U.S. fleet through the acquisition of advanced maritime systems. She manages complex contracting actions focused on the development, integration, and lifecycle support of critical naval electronics, including search, detection, navigation, and guidance systems essential to surface and undersea warfare platforms. Her work directly enables fleet readiness by ensuring timely delivery of mission-critical technologies that enhance situational awareness, command and control, and sensor interoperability across naval assets. Keisling maintains consistent partnerships with leading defense contractors including Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Huntington Ingalls Incorporated, and Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, among others. These relationships center on high-technology systems integration, naval instrumentation, and mission-critical hardware development. Her contracting approach emphasizes long-term vendor collaboration, technical rigor, and performance-based acquisition strategies, often engaging prime contractors with proven expertise in naval electronics and systems engineering to meet stringent military specifications. Her procurement portfolio reflects a strict focus on open competition, with 100% of awards issued under no set-aside classifications. This underscores a strategic preference for full and open competition to ensure access to the most capable industrial base, particularly for mission-essential systems requiring specialized technical capabilities. While small business participation is not formally prioritized through socioeconomic set-asides, her contracting actions remain compliant with all statutory requirements and may include subcontracting opportunities as part of prime contractor performance plans. Keisling’s primary procurement focus lies within NAICS 334511, specializing in the acquisition of advanced nautical and aeronautical systems, including sonar arrays, radar interfaces, inertial navigation units, and integrated combat system components. Her expertise centers on the procurement of precision-engineered electronic systems critical to naval platform modernization, with deep familiarity in MIL-STD compliance, cybersecurity integration, and systems engineering processes governing naval hardware development.