Maria Estevane

Maria Estevane serves as a key procurement professional within the Department of the Air Force, supporting the acquisition and sustainment of critical aerospace and information systems essential to air superiority and space dominance. She manages a diverse portfolio of contracts focused on flight training, professional development, and advanced instrumentation systems, ensuring alignment with the Air Force’s modernization priorities in C5ISRT, avionics, and cyber-enabled command and control. Her work directly enables the operational readiness of air and space forces by facilitating timely access to mission-critical technologies and training solutions. Estevane maintains consistent contracting relationships with industry leaders including The Boeing Company and Lockheed Martin Corporation, partnering primarily with prime contractors capable of delivering complex aerospace systems, integrated avionics, and mission-specific training platforms. These collaborations are characterized by long-term sustainment contracts and technology integration efforts, often involving systems engineering, test and evaluation, and secure communications infrastructure. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes and risk-managed acquisition strategies aligned with Defense Acquisition Framework guidelines. While the majority of her acquisitions are unrestricted, she demonstrates a meaningful commitment to small business participation, with approximately 28% of her portfolio designated as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate effort to foster innovation and capacity-building among small firms capable of supporting specialized training, engineering services, and precision instrumentation needs. Her contracting patterns show no reliance on 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides, indicating a preference for broad small business competition rather than targeted socioeconomic programs. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 611512 (Flight Training) and 611430 (Professional and Management Development Training), supplemented by engineering services and manufacturing of aerospace instrumentation systems. She routinely procures flight simulators, mission-specific training devices, electronic test and measurement equipment, and avionics integration services, demonstrating deep technical familiarity with defense aviation systems and workforce development pipelines.