Rhonda Link

Rhonda Link 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 complex acquisitions for mission-critical avionics, electronic warfare subsystems, and integrated sensor suites essential to maintaining air superiority and fleet readiness. Her portfolio centers on engineering services, systems integration, and technical support for next-generation aircraft platforms, ensuring seamless modernization of legacy systems while incorporating emerging technologies. Link plays a vital role in translating operational requirements into contract deliverables that align with the Navy’s strategic modernization goals. She maintains longstanding 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 reflect a preference for established industry leaders with proven expertise in aerospace systems engineering, mission systems integration, and sustainment support. Her contracting approach emphasizes technical rigor, performance-based outcomes, and long-term vendor collaboration to ensure system reliability and operational continuity. Rhonda Link’s procurement activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic focus on accessing the broadest possible pool of technical capability rather than socioeconomic set-asides, prioritizing mission-critical performance over socioeconomic classification. While small business participation is not formally incentivized through set-aside mechanisms, she evaluates all offerors based on technical merit, past performance, and systems integration capacity. Her primary procurement focus is under NAICS 481219 (Other Nonscheduled Air Transportation), which, in this context, is applied to specialized aviation support services including flight testing, data collection, and airborne systems evaluation. She procures high-precision engineering services for avionics integration, electronic attack systems, navigation modernization, and mission data analysis, demonstrating deep expertise in the technical domains of naval air systems acquisition.