Lauren Nobles

Lauren Nobles serves as a key procurement professional within DLA Aviation, supporting the Department of Defense’s mission to ensure the operational readiness of U.S. military aviation systems. She manages the acquisition of critical aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment essential for the sustainment of military aircraft, engines, and mission-critical subsystems. Her work centers on securing high-reliability components amid evolving supply chain challenges and technical obsolescence, ensuring timely delivery of parts that maintain fleet availability and mission effectiveness. She routinely handles complex sole-source and competitive procurements under FAR and DFARS guidelines, often navigating urgent logistics requirements and engineering change proposals to sustain legacy and modernized platforms. Her contractor relationships are primarily with manufacturers and suppliers specializing in aerospace-grade components, including firms capable of reverse engineering obsolete parts, certifying alternate sources, and meeting stringent military specifications such as MIL-STD and AS9100. While no single vendor dominates her portfolio, she engages with a broad base of qualified industrial base partners, including those with AS9100 certification, ITAR compliance, and pedigree in defense aerospace manufacturing. Her procurement approach emphasizes technical capability, supply chain traceability, and long-term sustainment planning over short-term cost savings. Lauren’s contracting activity reflects a strict focus on open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions issued without set-aside designations. This indicates a preference for maximizing industrial base participation through full and open competition rather than socioeconomic set-asides, aligning with DLA Aviation’s strategic need for rapid, scalable sourcing of mission-critical parts. While small business participation is not formally prioritized through set-asides, she may still engage qualified small businesses when they meet technical and certification requirements. Her procurement focus is exclusively centered on NAICS 336413—Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing—encompassing avionics components, hydraulic and fuel system parts, landing gear subsystems, and other non-airframe aviation hardware. She possesses deep expertise in sourcing parts subject to obsolescence, export controls, and military specification compliance, ensuring that acquired components meet exacting performance and safety standards for operational environments.