Leanne I. Serman

Leanne I. Serman serves as a Contract Specialist within the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), where she plays a critical role in executing the acquisition lifecycle for advanced naval aviation systems. Responsible for soliciting, negotiating, and awarding contracts, she ensures compliance with federal procurement regulations while supporting NAVAIR’s mission to deliver cutting-edge air warfare capabilities to the Navy and Marine Corps. Her portfolio primarily encompasses the procurement of radio and wireless communications equipment, avionics subsystems, and auxiliary aircraft components, with a focus on sustaining and modernizing carrier-based and expeditionary aviation platforms. She works closely with engineering and program management teams to align contractual requirements with technical specifications and operational readiness goals. Leanne maintains established working relationships with leading defense contractors including Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and General Atomics, partnering with these prime vendors to deliver complex, high-performance systems. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, technical rigor, and supply chain resilience, often involving multi-year, performance-based service contracts for maintenance, integration, and logistics support. She frequently collaborates with these industry leaders on technology insertion initiatives and sustainment modernization efforts critical to fleet readiness. Leanne’s contracting activity reflects a strong preference for full and open competition, with 100% of her awards issued without set-asides. This indicates a strategic focus on leveraging the broadest possible industrial base to meet mission-critical technical demands, rather than socioeconomic set-asides. While small business participation is not formally prioritized in her portfolio, her contracts often include subcontracting opportunities that enable small businesses to contribute to technical deliverables under prime contractor oversight. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 334220, encompassing radio and wireless communications equipment manufacturing, and to a lesser extent NAICS 336413 for other aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment. She specializes in procuring mission-critical avionics, data links, electronic warfare components, and airborne communication systems that enable network-centric warfare and interoperability across naval aviation platforms.