Katie Lauer

Katie Lauer serves as a key procurement professional within the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard IMF, supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to sustain fleet readiness through complex ship repair, maintenance, and industrial support acquisitions. She manages a diverse portfolio of contracts focused on naval vessel lifecycle management, including structural overhauls, propulsion system upgrades, and precision industrial maintenance services. Her work directly enables the shipyard’s operational capacity by ensuring timely delivery of critical repair capabilities and mission-critical equipment, aligning procurement activities with strategic naval readiness goals. Lauer maintains consistent partnerships with core vendors including Lake Union Drydock Co., Sunbelt Rentals, Inc., Fluke Electronics Corp., Pauley Rodine Inc., and Motive Power Marine, LLC. These relationships reflect a reliance on specialized maritime industrial service providers, equipment lessors, and precision instrumentation suppliers with proven expertise in naval environments. Her contracting patterns emphasize long-term vendor reliability, technical compliance, and performance-based service delivery, often involving complex task orders under indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) mechanisms to support dynamic shipyard demands. Lauer’s procurement portfolio reflects a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of awards issued under no set-aside classifications. This indicates a focus on maximizing technical capability and industrial capacity over socioeconomic targeting, prioritizing mission-critical performance and vendor expertise in highly specialized naval maintenance domains. While small business participation is not formally incentivized through set-asides, her contracting decisions remain aligned with broader DoN goals for efficient, high-quality industrial support. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing), complemented by significant activity in 532490 (Commercial Machinery Rental) and 334516 (Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing). She routinely acquires heavy marine equipment, diagnostic instrumentation, and industrial rental solutions essential for drydock operations, electrical system testing, and precision maintenance, demonstrating deep technical fluency in naval industrial operations.