Kimberlee Forbes

Kimberlee Forbes serves as a key procurement professional within the Aviation Logistics Center (ALC) of the U.S. Coast Guard, supporting the sustainment and modernization of the Coast Guard’s rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft fleet. She manages complex acquisitions for mission-critical aviation components, including avionics, maintenance systems, and auxiliary equipment, ensuring operational readiness across legacy platforms such as the MH-65E Dauphin and HC-144 Ocean Sentry. Her work directly enables the ALC’s mission to extend service life and maintain high availability of airborne assets through strategic sourcing, lifecycle support contracting, and technical oversight of maintenance and repair services. Forbes maintains consistent working relationships with industry leaders such as ROCKWELL COLLINS, INC., AIRBUS US SPACE & DEFENSE INC, and AVIATRIX INC, partnering with firms specializing in aerospace systems integration, avionics sustainment, and logistics support. She also collaborates with niche suppliers like GOLDBELT INTEGRATED LOGISTICS SERVICES, LLC and Quality Biological, Inc., reflecting a balanced approach that combines large-system integrators with specialized service providers. Her contracting patterns emphasize long-term sustainment partnerships over transactional procurement, prioritizing reliability, technical expertise, and supply chain resilience. Her procurement strategy reflects a strong preference for open competition, with 73.7% of awards issued without set-asides, while still maintaining a meaningful 26.3% commitment to total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This demonstrates a deliberate balance between leveraging scale and capability from large vendors while actively fostering opportunities for qualified small businesses in technical service and niche manufacturing sectors. Forbes’s primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 336413 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing), with significant activity in electronic repair and maintenance (811210), plastics manufacturing (326199), wiring device production (335931), and industrial fan/blower systems (333413). Her expertise spans the full spectrum of aviation maintenance, from precision component fabrication to system-level avionics overhaul, reflecting deep technical familiarity with Coast Guard aircraft sustainment requirements.