Michael Simonelli

Michael Simonelli serves as a key procurement professional within Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to sustain and modernize the U.S. fleet through strategic acquisition of naval vessels and mission-critical systems. He specializes in managing full lifecycle contracts for shipbuilding and repair, overseeing complex procurements that integrate advanced propulsion, combat systems, and naval electronics. His work directly enables fleet readiness and technological superiority across surface and undersea platforms, ensuring compliance with defense acquisition regulations and operational requirements. Simonelli maintains consistent relationships with industry leaders such as Huntington Ingalls Incorporated, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Damen Shipbuilding & Cooperation B.V., G.S.E. Dynamics, Inc., and Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC. These partnerships reflect a focus on prime contractors with proven expertise in naval architecture, systems integration, and large-scale shipyard operations. His contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, technical innovation, and long-term sustainment capabilities, often involving multi-year, multi-phase contract vehicles requiring rigorous oversight and systems engineering coordination. His procurement portfolio reflects a strict focus on full and open competition, with no set-asides utilized across his active contracts. This indicates a strategic preference for leveraging the broadest possible industrial base to meet the Navy’s high-performance, mission-critical requirements, rather than socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. His contracting patterns prioritize technical capability and industrial capacity over socioeconomic categorization. Simonelli’s primary focus is on NAICS 336611—Ship Building and Repairing—encompassing the design, construction, overhaul, and modernization of naval surface and submarine platforms. He procures complex systems including hull structures, propulsion trains, combat management systems, and electro-optical sensors, requiring deep domain expertise in naval engineering standards, MIL-SPEC compliance, and defense logistics frameworks. His work ensures the Navy’s technological edge across next-generation maritime platforms.