Rhonda G. Garcia

Rhonda G. Garcia serves as a Contract Specialist within the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), where she plays a critical role in managing the acquisition lifecycle for advanced naval aviation systems. Her responsibilities include soliciting, evaluating, and awarding contracts for engineering services, aerospace systems, and mission-critical avionics, ensuring alignment with NAVAIR’s mission to sustain and modernize carrier-based and expeditionary air platforms. She works closely with program managers and technical stakeholders to translate operational requirements into compliant, risk-mitigated procurement actions under FAR and DFARS guidelines, with a focus on complex, high-technology acquisitions supporting naval air superiority. Garcia maintains consistent procurement relationships with leading defense prime contractors, including Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and General Atomics, primarily for the development and sustainment of rotary-wing aircraft, unmanned aerial systems, and integrated sensor suites. Her contracting patterns reflect deep collaboration with established industry partners possessing specialized technical capabilities in aerospace engineering and systems integration, often involving long-term sustainment contracts and performance-based logistics arrangements. Her procurement portfolio is overwhelmingly dominated by open, unrestricted competitions, with only 8.3% of awards set aside for small businesses under FAR 19.5. While she does not routinely utilize 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides, her approach reflects NAVAIR’s strategic emphasis on leveraging industry’s most capable technical resources to meet urgent operational needs, with small business participation occurring primarily through subcontracting rather than prime awards. Garcia’s primary NAICS focus is on engineering services (541330) and the manufacturing of aeronautical navigation and guidance systems (334511), indicating deep expertise in procuring flight control systems, radar and electronic warfare components, and mission-critical avionics. She routinely manages acquisitions involving systems engineering, technical data rights, and configuration control, supporting the integration of next-generation capabilities across Navy and Marine Corps aviation platforms.