Kimberly Herring

Kimberly Herring serves as a key procurement professional within the FA8576 Aflcmc Eskc, a critical unit under the Department of the Air Force focused on advancing resilient positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) capabilities for air, space, and cyber operations. She manages the acquisition of advanced navigation systems, including embedded GPS/inertial navigation systems (EGI) and software-defined user equipment, ensuring the Department maintains operational superiority in contested and degraded environments. Her work directly supports the modernization of PNT architectures critical to mission-critical platforms, integrating cutting-edge technologies that enhance resilience against jamming, spoofing, and signal denial. Kimberly collaborates with a broad ecosystem of defense aerospace and systems integration contractors specializing in navigation instrumentation, signal processing, and ruggedized electronics. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages with firms possessing deep expertise in aerospace-grade sensor fusion, military-grade firmware development, and secure hardware-in-the-loop testing environments. Her contracting approach emphasizes technical rigor, performance-based outcomes, and lifecycle sustainment, fostering long-term partnerships with vendors capable of rapid prototyping and field-deployable upgrades. Her procurement activity reflects a strict focus on open competition, with 100% of acquisitions conducted without set-aside preferences, indicating a prioritization of technical capability and mission readiness over socioeconomic categorizations. This approach underscores a mission-driven procurement philosophy where performance and interoperability outweigh socioeconomic targets, aligning with the urgency of PNT modernization in high-threat domains. Kimberly’s primary procurement focus is centered on NAICS 334511—Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing. She routinely acquires high-precision inertial measurement units, anti-jam antenna arrays, multi-constellation PNT receivers, and integrated navigation software stacks, demonstrating deep technical fluency in military navigation systems, signal integrity, and embedded avionics architecture. Her expertise lies at the intersection of systems engineering and defense procurement, ensuring that PNT solutions meet stringent MIL-STD and DoD interoperability requirements.