Mary Abbott

Mary Abbott serves as a key procurement lead within the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (N61340), overseeing the acquisition of advanced simulation and avionics systems critical to naval aviation readiness. She manages the full lifecycle of engineering services contracts aimed at modernizing tactical flight training environments, including immersive simulators, mission-critical avionics integration, and curriculum-enabled training infrastructure. Her work directly supports the Department of the Navy’s strategic imperative to enhance aircrew proficiency through cutting-edge synthetic training technologies, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations and operational readiness standards. Abbott maintains a consistent partnership with STRACON SERVICES GROUP, LLC, and FLIGHTSAFETY INTERNATIONAL INC, both of which provide specialized engineering, simulation development, and flight training system integration services. These relationships reflect a pattern of long-term, performance-based contracting with industry leaders capable of delivering complex, high-fidelity training solutions under stringent DoD technical requirements. Her procurement approach emphasizes technical rigor, system interoperability, and lifecycle sustainment, fostering collaborative vendor engagement to meet evolving naval aviation training needs. A defining feature of Abbott’s contracting portfolio is its exclusive reliance on Total Small Business Set-Aside authority under FAR 19.5, demonstrating an unwavering commitment to socioeconomic inclusion. Every contract she manages is reserved for small businesses, ensuring equitable access to high-value engineering opportunities and empowering innovative small firms to contribute to national defense capabilities. This pattern underscores a deliberate strategy to cultivate a robust small business industrial base within the defense training sector. Her procurement focus is singularly centered on NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services), encompassing the design, development, and integration of synthetic training systems, mission rehearsal environments, and embedded training software. She specializes in acquiring technical services related to real-time simulation modeling, avionics interface development, and adaptive learning systems, reflecting deep domain expertise in naval aviation training technology and systems engineering.