Rosa M Harding

Rosa M. Harding serves as a Contract Specialist at the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, where she plays a pivotal role in executing complex acquisitions for advanced naval aviation systems. Her responsibilities encompass the full lifecycle of contract management—from solicitation and evaluation to award and administration—for mission-critical avionics, electronic warfare systems, communications equipment, and aircraft subsystems. She ensures compliance with federal acquisition regulations while aligning procurements with the agency’s strategic priorities of modernizing airborne sensor suites and sustaining legacy platforms to maintain air superiority and fleet readiness. Harding maintains strong, ongoing relationships with key industry partners including SABRE SYSTEMS, LLC, THE BOEING COMPANY, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, INC., and ONTIC ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC. These partnerships reflect her focus on high-technology defense contractors capable of delivering integrated solutions in radar, navigation, and secure communications. Her procurement approach emphasizes technical rigor, performance-based contracting, and collaboration with vendors possessing deep domain expertise in aerospace and defense systems. While the majority of her acquisitions are unrestricted, Harding demonstrates a consistent commitment to small business participation, with approximately 21% of her portfolio allocated to Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5. Her socioeconomic contracting patterns reflect a deliberate effort to engage qualified small businesses in the defense industrial base, particularly those with specialized capabilities in communications and electronics manufacturing. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 334220 (radio and wireless communications equipment) and 334290 (other communications equipment), underscoring her technical expertise in airborne signal processing, data links, and electronic systems integration. She routinely procures mission-critical hardware and software solutions supporting next-generation naval aircraft, with additional activity in computer peripherals and motor/generator components essential to platform sustainment.