Sabana N Moore-Barnes

Sabana N. Moore-Barnes serves as a Contract Specialist at the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, where she plays a critical role in acquiring advanced avionics, mission systems, and aircraft subsystems essential to maintaining naval air superiority. She manages the full lifecycle of complex procurement actions—from market research and solicitation development to contract award and administration—ensuring alignment with the agency’s mission to modernize airborne sensor suites, enhance electronic warfare capabilities, and sustain legacy platforms. Her acquisitions predominantly support research, development, testing, and engineering services for next-generation naval aviation systems, with a focus on technical rigor and regulatory compliance under FAR and DFARS guidelines. Moore-Barnes maintains consistent contracting 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 preference for established industry leaders with proven expertise in aerospace systems integration, signal processing, and mission-critical hardware manufacturing. Her approach emphasizes performance-based contracting, technical evaluation rigor, and long-term sustainment planning, fostering collaborative, mission-driven vendor relationships grounded in technical credibility and delivery reliability. While the majority of her acquisitions are conducted as unrestricted procurements, she actively supports small business participation through Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, consistently allocating approximately one-quarter of her portfolio to small businesses. Her socioeconomic contracting patterns reflect a balanced commitment to fostering competition among qualified small vendors without compromising technical requirements, demonstrating a strategic alignment with Department of the Navy goals for broad-based industry engagement. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 334515 (instrumentation for electrical signal testing) and 336413 (other aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment), with significant activity in 334220 (communications equipment) and 336411 (aircraft manufacturing). She specializes in procuring high-reliability avionics, electronic warfare components, test and calibration equipment, and specialized aerospace materials, demonstrating deep technical fluency in airborne systems integration and signal integrity domains.