Lynda Horton

Lynda Horton serves as a key procurement lead within the U.S. Coast Guard’s Headquarters Contract Operations (CG-912), driving strategic acquisitions that advance maritime security, operational readiness, and fleet modernization. She manages the full lifecycle of contracts for specialized maritime and aerospace services, with a focus on vessel construction, maintenance, and maritime domain awareness systems. Her work directly supports the Coast Guard’s mission to enhance coastal patrol capabilities, sustain specialized vessel fleets, and deploy advanced detection and surveillance technologies. Horton’s portfolio emphasizes complex, mission-critical procurements requiring technical expertise in naval architecture, marine systems integration, and defense logistics. Her primary contractor relationships are with specialized shipbuilders and maritime defense firms, including Bollinger Shipyards, Davie Defense Inc., Rauma Marine Constructions Oy, and Rozema’s Boat Works, Inc. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with proven experience in custom vessel design, retrofitting, and repair of Coast Guard-specific platforms. Horton cultivates long-term, performance-based relationships with these industry partners, ensuring alignment with rigorous Coast Guard engineering standards and operational requirements across the maritime domain. Horton maintains a strict 100% Total Small Business Set-Aside policy across all her acquisitions, consistently channeling contract opportunities to small businesses under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deep institutional commitment to socioeconomic equity and workforce development, ensuring that small, agile firms with niche maritime capabilities have equitable access to federal procurement opportunities. Her contracting patterns demonstrate a deliberate effort to foster a resilient, diversified supplier base within the defense maritime ecosystem. Her procurement activity is exclusively aligned with NAICS 541820 (Public Relations Agencies), indicating a specialized focus on strategic communications, stakeholder engagement, and public affairs support services critical to public-facing Coast Guard operations. This unique emphasis underscores her role in managing non-traditional defense contracting needs—ensuring effective messaging, community outreach, and operational transparency in support of national maritime missions.