Mariana Aguilar

Mariana Aguilar serves as a primary contracting professional within Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), playing a critical role in advancing the U.S. Navy’s maritime combat capabilities through the acquisition of complex naval platforms and mission-critical systems. She manages the full lifecycle procurement of shipbuilding and repair contracts, ensuring alignment with NAVSEA’s strategic objectives of fleet readiness, technological modernization, and undersea superiority. Her work centers on high-stakes, technically demanding acquisitions involving naval vessel construction, integration of advanced electronics, and lifecycle sustainment programs, requiring deep expertise in defense acquisition regulations and systems engineering principles. Aguilar maintains consistent, long-term partnerships with leading defense industrial base contractors, including Huntington Ingalls Incorporated, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Damen Shipbuilding & Cooperation B.V., G.S.E. Dynamics, Inc., and Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC. These relationships reflect a focus on prime contractors with proven capabilities in naval architecture, shipyard operations, and integrated combat systems. Her contracting patterns emphasize performance-based outcomes, technical compliance, and industrial capacity, fostering collaboration with vendors capable of delivering large-scale, mission-essential platforms under stringent naval specifications. Aguilar’s procurement portfolio reflects a strict preference for full and open competition, with 100% of her awards issued without set-aside designations such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB. This pattern underscores a mission-driven focus on technical capability and industrial scale over socioeconomic preferences, consistent with NAVSEA’s requirement for specialized shipbuilding expertise that currently resides primarily in large, established defense contractors. Her primary focus lies in NAICS 336611—Ship Building and Repairing—where she procures everything from new construction of surface and subsurface combatants to mid-life modernization and repair services. Her technical domain expertise spans naval hull design, propulsion integration, combat system installation, and corrosion control, ensuring that all acquisitions meet Navy standards for durability, interoperability, and combat effectiveness.