NickiAnn O LaBriola

NickiAnn O. LaBriola serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), supporting the acquisition and lifecycle sustainment of advanced naval aviation systems critical to U.S. Navy and Marine Corps air superiority. She manages complex contracts for mission-critical aerospace technologies, including avionics, sensor suites, weapons integration, and airborne logistics infrastructure. Her work directly enables NAVAIR’s strategic imperative to modernize carrier-based and expeditionary aircraft fleets through end-to-end acquisition processes, from requirements definition to contract award and performance oversight. She routinely handles high-stakes, technical procurements requiring rigorous compliance with defense acquisition regulations and systems engineering standards. LaBriola maintains established working relationships with leading defense aerospace prime contractors, including Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and General Atomics, partnering with firms capable of delivering cutting-edge aircraft platforms, unmanned systems, and mission-critical avionics. Her procurement approach emphasizes long-term sustainment partnerships with vendors possessing deep domain expertise in naval aviation systems, ensuring interoperability, reliability, and rapid fielding of capabilities. She collaborates closely with engineering and logistics teams to align contractual deliverables with operational readiness goals. Her contracting activity shows no preference for socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a mission-driven focus on accessing the broadest possible pool of qualified industrial capabilities rather than socioeconomic targeting, consistent with NAVAIR’s need for technologically advanced, scalable solutions from established defense contractors. Her procurement focus is exclusively centered on NAICS 334511—Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing. She specializes in acquiring advanced radar systems, electronic warfare suites, flight control instrumentation, and integrated avionics architectures, demonstrating deep technical fluency in airborne sensor fusion, mission computing, and secure data link technologies essential to next-generation naval aviation platforms.