Matthew R. Stansberry

Matthew R. Stansberry serves as a key procurement professional within the U.S. Coast Guard’s SFLC Procurement Branch 1 (70Z080), where he manages complex acquisitions essential to sustaining and modernizing the Coast Guard’s fleet of cutters and maritime assets. His responsibilities encompass the full lifecycle of shipbuilding and repair contracts, ensuring operational readiness through dry dock overhauls, propulsion system upgrades, and structural modernization of naval vessels. Stansberry specializes in contracting for heavy industrial marine services, coordinating technical requirements with engineering and logistics teams to align procurement actions with mission-critical readiness goals. He maintains long-standing relationships with a core group of specialized shipyard and marine industrial contractors, including Fairbanks Morse, LLC, Bay Ship & Yacht Co, Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors, L.L.C., Automatic Coating Limited USA, and Technico Corporation. These partnerships reflect a focus on firms with proven expertise in naval vessel maintenance, coating systems, and propulsion retrofits. Stansberry’s contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, leveraging contractor technical capabilities to meet stringent Coast Guard safety and durability standards. His procurement portfolio is overwhelmingly dominated by small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, with 96.2% of awards reserved for small businesses, demonstrating a robust commitment to socioeconomic contracting goals. This pattern underscores a deliberate strategy to cultivate a resilient industrial base of qualified marine vendors, particularly those with niche capabilities in ship repair and marine systems integration. The sole NAICS code in focus—336611, Ship Building and Repairing—reflects a highly specialized technical domain. Stansberry’s acquisitions center on vessel structural repairs, hull refurbishment, machinery overhauls, and corrosion control systems, requiring deep familiarity with naval architecture standards, Coast Guard marine safety regulations, and commercial marine industry best practices. His work directly supports the enduring operational capability of the Coast Guard’s fleet across coastal and open-ocean missions.