Roberta M Nethercutt

Roberta Nethercutt serves as a secondary contracting professional within the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, supporting the acquisition of advanced aviation systems critical to naval air superiority. While not the primary contracting officer, she plays a vital role in facilitating the procurement lifecycle for mission-critical avionics, electronic warfare subsystems, and embedded software solutions. Her responsibilities include coordinating contract administration, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations, and assisting in the evaluation of technical proposals for next-generation aircraft systems. She works closely with technical stakeholders to align procurement strategies with the Division’s modernization priorities, particularly in sensor integration, communications, and legacy platform sustainment. Nethercutt maintains consistent procurement relationships with leading defense and aerospace 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 reliance on established industry leaders with deep expertise in aerospace systems integration, mission software development, and specialized instrumentation. Her working patterns emphasize long-term collaboration with contractors capable of delivering complex, high-integrity technical solutions under stringent military specifications. Her contracting activity shows a strong preference for open competition, with 73.6% of acquisitions issued without set-aside designations. However, she actively supports small business participation, with 26.4% of awards structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, indicating a balanced approach to leveraging both prime industry capacity and small business innovation. Her procurement focus centers on NAICS codes 513210 (Software Publishers) and 334515 (Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals), reflecting deep specialization in avionics software, signal processing systems, and mission-critical test equipment. Additional emphasis on 511210 and 541519 underscores her involvement in custom software development and specialized computing services supporting airborne data fusion and real-time analytics for naval aircraft platforms.