Nickiann O Labriola

Nickiann O. Labriola serves as a Contract Specialist within the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), where she plays a critical role in executing the lifecycle acquisition of advanced naval aviation systems. Responsible for soliciting, evaluating, and awarding contracts across the full spectrum of procurement phases, she supports NAVAIR’s mission to deliver cutting-edge air superiority capabilities to the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Her portfolio primarily encompasses complex technical acquisitions involving aircraft systems, avionics, missile guidance technologies, and mission-critical logistics infrastructure, ensuring alignment with operational readiness requirements and defense acquisition regulations. She maintains longstanding relationships with prime contractors including Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and General Atomics, partnering with industry leaders to deliver high-performance aerospace and defense systems. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, risk mitigation, and stringent technical compliance, often involving integrated product teams and systems engineering processes. These partnerships are characterized by sustained collaboration on multi-year modernization programs, including unmanned aerial systems, next-generation sensors, and propulsion technologies. Labriola’s contracting activity is exclusively focused on full and open competition, with no set-asides designated for 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic categories. This reflects NAVAIR’s operational imperative to access the broadest possible industrial base for mission-critical technologies, prioritizing technical capability and system integration over socioeconomic preferences. Her primary procurement focus lies within NAICS 334511, encompassing the acquisition of airborne navigation, guidance, and surveillance systems, supplemented by significant activity in guided missile manufacturing (336414) and propulsion unit production (336415). She specializes in procuring high-reliability electronic systems, flight control hardware, radar and electro-optical sensors, and integrated weapon subsystems, demonstrating deep technical fluency in naval aviation electronics and aerospace defense domains.