Roshaia Thomas

Roshaia Thomas serves as a primary contracting professional within the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, playing a pivotal role in acquiring advanced aviation systems critical to naval air superiority. She manages complex procurements spanning avionics, electronic warfare subsystems, and mission-critical software integration, aligning acquisitions with the agency’s mission to modernize airborne sensor suites and sustain legacy platforms. Her work directly supports the development and fielding of next-generation naval aircraft systems, ensuring technical readiness and operational capability across the fleet. Thomas handles a high volume of research, development, and engineering contracts, often requiring stringent compliance with defense acquisition regulations and systems engineering lifecycle standards. She maintains consistent, long-term 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 a preference for established defense contractors with proven expertise in airborne systems integration, signal processing, and mission system sustainment. Her contracting approach emphasizes technical rigor, performance-based outcomes, and risk mitigation through proven vendor capabilities, fostering collaboration on high-stakes, mission-critical programs. Thomas’s procurement portfolio is overwhelmingly non-set-aside, with 90.9% of awards issued under full and open competition, reflecting the specialized nature of the technologies involved. However, she maintains a modest but intentional commitment to small business participation, with 9.1% of awards structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating balanced adherence to socioeconomic goals without compromising mission requirements. Her primary NAICS focus areas include 334515 for instrumentation in electrical signal testing, 513210 for software publishing, and 541715 for physical and engineering R&D. This underscores her specialization in procuring advanced avionics hardware, real-time mission software, and systems engineering services essential to modern naval aviation platforms. Her technical domain expertise lies at the intersection of electronic warfare, flight control systems, and embedded software integration.