Laura Battista

Laura Battista serves as a key procurement professional within the Department of Defense, specializing in the acquisition of mission-critical ordnance systems and small arms technology. Her role centers on executing agile contracting pathways to support the DoD’s modernization priorities, ensuring timely delivery of high-integrity munitions, ammunition components, and related ordnance accessories. She operates within the agency’s defense industrial base framework, managing complex solicitations that require strict compliance with military specifications, safety standards, and supply chain resilience requirements. Her acquisitions directly enable combat readiness and force modernization across service branches. Battista maintains longstanding relationships with prime defense contractors including Lockheed Martin Corporation, Huntington Ingalls Inc., The Boeing Company, Electric Boat Corporation, and Humana Government Business Inc. These partnerships reflect a focus on vertically integrated manufacturers with proven capabilities in ordnance production, systems integration, and defense logistics. Her contracting patterns emphasize long-term strategic sourcing over transactional procurement, fostering collaborative vendor engagement to meet evolving operational demands and technological advancements in munitions design. Her procurement portfolio shows no reliance on socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a deliberate emphasis on technical capability, production scale, and mission-critical reliability over socioeconomic preferences, aligning with the DoD’s prioritization of assured access to high-volume, high-safety ordnance systems. Her primary focus is NAICS 332994—Small Arms, Ordnance, and Ordnance Accessories Manufacturing—indicating deep expertise in the procurement of ammunition, explosive components, firing mechanisms, and related defense hardware. She handles complex technical requirements involving ballistics, materials science, and explosive safety protocols, ensuring contracted solutions meet DoD technical manuals and interoperability standards across land, sea, and air platforms.