Kim Halsell

Kim Halsell serves as a Contract Specialist at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard IMF (N32253), supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to sustain and modernize the U.S. Navy’s fleet through precision ship repair, industrial maintenance, and critical system refurbishment. She manages a diverse portfolio of procurement actions spanning complex industrial services and specialized equipment contracts, ensuring compliance with FAR and Navy-specific acquisition regulations. Her work directly enables operational readiness by facilitating timely acquisition of mission-critical maintenance capabilities, mechanical overhauls, and engineering support services essential to naval vessel availability. Halsell maintains enduring relationships with key industrial contractors including Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Pacific Industrial Equipment Corp, XLEAGLE LLC, Fairbanks Morse, LLC, and Philip Rieke. These partnerships reflect a focus on long-term, high-complexity service delivery for heavy machinery repair, marine systems maintenance, and precision instrumentation. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, technical specificity, and vendor accountability, fostering collaborative relationships with vendors possessing deep domain expertise in naval industrial environments. Her procurement activity is overwhelmingly non-set-aside, with 95.2% of contracts awarded under full and open competition, reflecting the specialized, technical nature of the work requiring qualified industrial vendors with Navy-certified capabilities. Only 4.8% of awards are designated as total small business set-asides, indicating a strategic prioritization of technical capability over socioeconomic preferences, though she remains compliant with all applicable small business programs when requirements align. Halsell’s primary procurement focus centers on NAICS 811310 (commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance) and 811219 (other industrial machinery repair), which together account for over two-thirds of her portfolio. She also frequently procures specialized equipment under NAICS 334515 (electrical measuring instruments) and 333415 (industrial refrigeration systems), demonstrating deep expertise in naval propulsion support, control instrumentation, and heavy-gauge metal fabrication (NAICS 332420). Her technical domain spans mechanical systems, marine engineering, and mission-critical industrial infrastructure.