LCDR Maria Warner

LCDR Maria Warner serves as a key contracting professional within the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), supporting the acquisition and lifecycle sustainment of critical naval aviation systems. She manages complex procurements focused on advanced aircraft components, avionics, and auxiliary equipment essential to maintaining air superiority for the Navy and Marine Corps. Her role centers on executing full-cycle contracting actions—from requirements validation and market research to source selection and contract award—ensuring alignment with NAVAIR’s strategic modernization goals for carrier-based and expeditionary aircraft platforms. She operates within a high-tempo, technically demanding environment where precision and regulatory compliance are paramount to mission readiness. LCDR Warner maintains consistent, long-term relationships with leading defense aerospace primes including Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and General Atomics. These partnerships are primarily centered on the procurement of mission-critical subsystems, maintenance support packages, and integrated logistics solutions for rotary- and fixed-wing platforms. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, technical risk mitigation, and contractor accountability, fostering collaborative relationships that prioritize innovation and sustainment readiness across the naval aviation enterprise. LCDR Warner’s procurement portfolio reflects a strong preference for full and open competition, with 100% of her awards issued under no set-aside classifications. This underscores a strategic focus on leveraging the broadest industrial base to meet urgent operational needs, rather than socioeconomic set-asides. While small business participation is not formally prioritized in her award patterns, her contracting actions remain fully compliant with all federal acquisition regulations and encourage competition among all qualified vendors, regardless of size or status. Her technical domain is exclusively focused on NAICS 336413—Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing—encompassing the acquisition of flight control systems, mission avionics, structural components, and specialized support equipment. She possesses deep expertise in procuring high-reliability, military-specification hardware and software-integrated systems used in carrier aircraft, unmanned aerial systems, and expeditionary aviation platforms, ensuring interoperability and combat readiness across the naval aviation fleet.