Patricia Lay

Patricia Lay serves as a key procurement professional within the FA8122 Aerospace Propulsion and Avionics Division of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, supporting the Department of the Air Force’s mission to sustain and modernize high-performance aerospace systems. She manages complex acquisition programs focused on the remanufacture, repair, and integration of flight-critical propulsion and avionics components for legacy and active-duty fighter platforms, including F-16 and F-110-powered aircraft. Her portfolio encompasses engineering services, technical data packages, and logistics support for turbine systems, radar transmitters, and flight sensors, ensuring operational readiness through life-cycle sustainment contracting. Lay maintains longstanding relationships with Tier-1 aerospace contractors including Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation, Moog Inc., Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, and United Dynamics, Inc.—organizations with deep expertise in turbine engine overhaul, electro-mechanical actuation, and avionics integration. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based logistics, technical compliance, and long-term vendor partnerships grounded in proven capability and quality assurance standards, often leveraging indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) and cost-reimbursement contract types to accommodate technical uncertainty and sustainment demands. Lay’s procurement portfolio reflects a strict focus on full and open competition, with 100% of awards issued without set-aside designations such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB. While small business participation is not formally prioritized through socioeconomic set-asides, her contracting actions remain fully compliant with FAR requirements and emphasize technical merit, past performance, and production capacity over socioeconomic criteria. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 336412 (Aircraft Engine and Engine Parts Manufacturing) and 336413 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing), encompassing precision-machined components, combustion systems, fuel control units, and mission-critical sensor assemblies. She possesses deep technical fluency in gas turbine repair cycles, avionics architecture integration, and military specification compliance, ensuring that acquisitions meet stringent Air Force reliability and safety standards.