Michele Estep

Michele Estep serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), supporting the lifecycle acquisition and sustainment of naval aviation systems for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. She manages complex contracts for advanced aircraft components, avionics, and mission-critical support equipment, ensuring alignment with NAVAIR’s strategic modernization goals. Her work directly enables the operational readiness of carrier-based and expeditionary air platforms, with a focus on technical integration, logistics support, and systems sustainment across the defense acquisition lifecycle. Estep maintains consistent contracting relationships with leading defense aerospace prime contractors, including Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and General Atomics. These partnerships center on the procurement of high-performance aircraft systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, precision munitions integration, and specialized maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based logistics, long-term sustainment agreements, and technical collaboration with industry partners to ensure system reliability and mission readiness. Estep’s procurement portfolio is entirely non-set-aside, reflecting a strategic focus on full and open competition for technically complex, mission-critical aviation systems. There is no documented preference for 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic programs, indicating that acquisitions are driven primarily by technical capability, system interoperability, and industrial base capacity rather than socioeconomic targeting. Her primary procurement activity is concentrated in NAICS 336413 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing) and NAICS 336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing), underscoring deep expertise in airframe components, flight control systems, avionics integration, and propulsion subsystems. She routinely sources advanced materials, sensor suites, and mission systems tailored to naval aviation environments, demonstrating specialized knowledge in military aerospace engineering standards and defense supply chain requirements.