Lee Tyson

Lee Tyson serves as a Purchasing Agent at the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, where they play a critical role in acquiring advanced avionics, mission-critical sensor systems, and electronic warfare components essential to naval air superiority. Responsible for managing the full lifecycle of procurement actions—from market research and solicitation to contract award and administration—Tyson supports the agency’s mission to modernize and sustain next-generation aircraft platforms. Their acquisitions primarily focus on high-precision instrumentation, analytical laboratory equipment, and mission systems integration, ensuring operational readiness across fleet-wide aviation platforms. Tyson maintains consistent working relationships with leading defense and aerospace contractors including SABRE SYSTEMS, LLC, THE BOEING COMPANY, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, INC., and ONTIC ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC. These partnerships reflect a strategic emphasis on collaboration with established industry leaders capable of delivering complex, mission-essential technologies under stringent military specifications. The working relationships are characterized by long-term engagement, technical alignment, and adherence to defense acquisition regulations, ensuring timely delivery of high-reliability systems. A strong commitment to small business participation defines Tyson’s contracting approach, with 76% of acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to foster innovation and capacity within the small business industrial base, prioritizing firms with expertise in specialized instrumentation and defense electronics. Socioeconomic contracting patterns consistently favor small businesses over set-asides for other categories, reinforcing the agency’s mission to broaden vendor diversity in critical technology domains. Tyson’s procurement focus centers on NAICS codes 334515 and 334513, corresponding to the manufacturing of electrical signal measurement instruments and industrial process control systems, alongside 334516 for analytical laboratory instruments. These reflect deep technical expertise in procuring high-fidelity sensors, signal conditioning hardware, and diagnostic systems used in flight testing, avionics validation, and electronic warfare simulation. Their work ensures the integration of precision measurement technologies into next-generation naval aircraft platforms.