Mary E Carter

Mary E. Carter serves as a Contract Specialist at the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, where she plays a pivotal role in executing complex acquisitions for advanced naval aviation systems. Her responsibilities encompass the full lifecycle of contract management—from market research and solicitation development to award and performance oversight—for mission-critical avionics, communications, and electronic warfare subsystems. She supports the agency’s strategic imperative to modernize airborne sensor suites and sustain legacy platforms, ensuring technical compliance and operational readiness across fleet-wide platforms. Her acquisitions are primarily performance-based, often involving technical specifications for integrated systems requiring rigorous testing and certification under military standards. Carter maintains consistent, high-volume contracting relationships with industry leaders 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 preference for established defense contractors with proven expertise in airborne systems integration, RF communications, and mission-critical hardware. Her procurement approach emphasizes technical rigor, risk mitigation, and performance accountability, fostering long-term vendor collaboration on complex, high-stakes programs. Carter’s contracting portfolio reflects a 100% non-set-aside orientation, indicating a focus on full and open competition driven by technical complexity and specialized capability requirements. While small business participation is not formally prioritized through socioeconomic set-asides, her acquisitions remain accessible to all qualified vendors, with selection based on technical merit, past performance, and system integration expertise. Her primary NAICS focus is 334220—Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing—reflecting deep specialization in airborne communication systems, data links, electronic warfare suites, and navigation subsystems. She routinely procures encrypted RF transceivers, signal processing units, and embedded avionics architectures designed for naval aircraft platforms, demonstrating strong technical fluency in DoD communications standards and MIL-STD compliance.