Matthew E. Duncan

Matthew E. Duncan serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, supporting the development and sustainment of advanced naval aviation systems. He manages complex acquisitions for mission-critical avionics, electronic warfare subsystems, and aircraft integration technologies, ensuring alignment with the Navy’s strategic priorities in air superiority and fleet readiness. His role involves end-to-end contract execution for high-technology systems, from requirements definition through award and performance oversight, with a focus on next-generation airborne sensors, communications networks, and mission computing platforms. Duncan maintains consistent partnerships with leading defense and aerospace contractors, including SABRE SYSTEMS, LLC, THE BOEING COMPANY, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, INC., and ONTIC ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC. These relationships reflect a preference for established industry leaders with proven expertise in aerospace systems integration, custom software development, and precision manufacturing of aircraft components. His contracting approach emphasizes technical rigor, risk mitigation, and performance-based acquisition strategies to support mission-critical delivery timelines. Duncan’s procurement portfolio is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic emphasis on accessing the broadest possible pool of technical capability rather than socioeconomic set-asides, prioritizing mission need over socioeconomic criteria. While small business participation is not formally targeted, vendors of all sizes compete on technical merit and past performance. His primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 334513 (industrial measurement and control instrumentation), 336413 (aircraft auxiliary equipment), and 541511 (custom computer programming). These categories underscore his deep expertise in avionics hardware, embedded systems software, and real-time mission computing—domains critical to modernizing naval aircraft platforms and sustaining legacy systems through digital modernization.