Lori A Gelinas

Lori A. Gelinas serves as a Contract Specialist at the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, where she plays a critical role in executing complex acquisitions for advanced naval aviation systems. Her responsibilities include managing the full lifecycle of contracts for mission-critical avionics, electronic warfare suites, communications platforms, and aircraft subsystems that support air superiority and fleet readiness. She specializes in technical procurements requiring rigorous systems integration, testing, and sustainment, often involving high-complexity engineering services and defense-grade hardware development. Her work directly enables the modernization of airborne sensor architectures and the extension of legacy platform lifecycles across the Navy’s aviation enterprise. Lori maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of defense 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 focus on established industry leaders with proven capabilities in aerospace systems engineering, mission software development, and precision manufacturing. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, technical compliance, and long-term sustainment support, fostering collaborative, trust-based vendor relationships grounded in technical rigor and regulatory adherence. Lori’s procurement portfolio exhibits a strong preference for full and open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted without set-asides. This reflects a strategic alignment with the agency’s mission to prioritize technical excellence and rapid capability delivery over socioeconomic classifications. While small business participation is not formally mandated in her portfolio, she ensures equitable access through transparent solicitation practices and robust vendor engagement. Her primary NAICS focus areas include engineering services (541330), computing infrastructure and data processing (518210), and specialized manufacturing of measuring and controlling devices (334519), with notable activity in maintenance and repair services (811219). She routinely procures mission-critical systems such as embedded avionics, signal processing hardware, secure communications modules, and test instrumentation, demonstrating deep expertise in defense electronics and systems integration within the naval aviation domain.