Olive Rogers

Olive Rogers serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, supporting the development, testing, and sustainment of advanced naval aviation systems. She manages a portfolio of acquisitions focused on mission-critical aircraft subsystems, including avionics, electronic warfare suites, and communication navigation systems essential to air superiority and fleet readiness. Her work ensures the integration of next-generation technologies into legacy and emerging platforms, aligning with the agency’s strategic priorities in modernization and operational resilience. Rogers handles complex, technically demanding contracts requiring rigorous engineering validation and lifecycle support, often coordinating across multiple technical domains to meet urgent operational needs. She maintains strong, long-term relationships with leading defense contractors including SABRE SYSTEMS, LLC, THE BOEING COMPANY, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, INC., and ONTIC ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC. These partnerships span systems integration, test and evaluation services, and specialized manufacturing of aircraft components. Rogers fosters collaborative contracting environments that emphasize technical compliance, performance-based outcomes, and rapid prototyping cycles, ensuring alignment between contractor capabilities and the Division’s evolving mission requirements. Rogers demonstrates a pronounced commitment to small business participation, with approximately 90.5% of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to engage qualified small businesses across the defense industrial base, promoting innovation and workforce development while meeting statutory socioeconomic goals. Her contracting patterns consistently prioritize small business vendors capable of delivering specialized engineering, testing, and maintenance services critical to sustaining naval aviation readiness. Her procurement focus centers on NAICS 336413 for other aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment, 541380 for testing laboratories and services, and 811310 for commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance. These reflect deep expertise in procuring flight-critical components, independent verification and validation services, and sustainment support for airborne systems. Rogers’ work ensures that technical requirements for avionics, sensor integration, and mechanical subsystems are met through a robust, diversified supplier base aligned with Navy aviation modernization objectives.