Nicole Eygnor

Nicole Eygnor serves as a key procurement professional within the Supply of Shipbuilding Groton, supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to sustain and modernize the U.S. submarine and surface fleet. She manages the acquisition of mission-critical nautical and aerospace systems, ensuring naval vessels are equipped with advanced detection, navigation, and guidance technologies essential to operational readiness. Her responsibilities encompass the full lifecycle of contracting activities—from requirements definition and market research to award and contract administration—focusing on high-precision, defense-grade instrumentation and integrated systems used in undersea and surface warfare platforms. Eygnor maintains consistent relationships with a select group of specialized contractors, including JO-KELL INC., HC Merchandisers, Inc., General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc., Dumonde Group, LLC, and Tent Company of Norfolk LLC. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors with proven expertise in naval systems integration, technical support services, and mission-specific infrastructure. Her contracting approach emphasizes reliability, technical compliance, and long-term sustainment capability, often prioritizing contractors with established track records in defense and maritime environments. Her procurement activity is entirely non-set-aside, reflecting a strategic focus on technical capability over socioeconomic classifications. While small business participation is not formally incentivized through set-asides, her contracting decisions are driven by the need for specialized expertise and mission-critical performance, ensuring that only qualified vendors with the requisite certifications and engineering rigor are selected. The agency’s procurement activity is exclusively concentrated in NAICS 334511, covering the manufacturing of search, detection, navigation, guidance, aeronautical, and nautical systems and instruments. This underscores Eygnor’s deep technical domain expertise in acquiring advanced sensors, sonar arrays, inertial navigation units, and integrated combat systems critical to submarine and surface ship operations. Her work directly enables the Navy’s technological edge in undersea warfare and maritime domain awareness.