Rosemarie

Rosemarie Burwell 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 management of contracts supporting the development, testing, and sustainment of mission-critical aircraft subsystems, including avionics, electronic warfare suites, and navigation systems. She specializes in sole-source and competitive procurements under the Department of Defense’s acquisition framework, ensuring compliance with FAR and DFARS regulations while aligning contractual deliverables with the agency’s strategic priorities in air superiority and fleet readiness. Her work directly enables the integration of next-generation technologies onto naval aircraft platforms. Burwell maintains established working relationships with key 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 focus on high-technology aerospace engineering, systems integration, and specialized manufacturing capabilities. Her procurement approach emphasizes technical rigor, performance-based outcomes, and long-term sustainment support, often requiring close collaboration with engineering and test teams to define precise statement of work requirements and acceptance criteria. Burwell’s contracting portfolio reflects a strong preference for full and open competition, with 100% of her awards issued under no set-aside categories. This indicates a focus on mission-critical capabilities where specialized expertise and industrial base capacity are paramount, and where socioeconomic set-asides are not routinely applicable due to the technical complexity and scale of requirements. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 336413—Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing—reflecting deep expertise in procuring specialized avionics, sensor components, and mission system hardware. Additional activity in NAICS 336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing) and 333514 (Special Die and Tool Manufacturing) underscores her involvement in the production of bespoke aerospace components and tooling essential to platform modernization and legacy system sustainment.