Samantha Leap

Samantha Leap serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, supporting the development and sustainment of advanced naval aviation systems. She manages complex engineering and technical acquisitions focused on avionics, electronic warfare systems, mission-critical aircraft subsystems, and next-generation sensor integration. Her work directly enables the agency’s mission to maintain air superiority through rapid modernization and legacy system sustainment, ensuring operational readiness across the fleet. She handles full lifecycle contracting for high-technical-risk projects, often involving systems engineering, testing, and integration services critical to naval air platforms. Leap maintains consistent 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 capabilities in systems engineering, technical analysis, and mission systems integration. Her contracting approach emphasizes technical rigor, performance-based outcomes, and long-term sustainment support, often resulting in multi-year task orders under indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity vehicles. Her procurement portfolio shows no reliance on socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic focus on technical capability over socioeconomic criteria, prioritizing mission-critical performance and industrial base readiness. While small business participation is not formally incentivized in her portfolio, she engages with capable small firms as subcontractors within larger prime contracts when technical requirements align. Her primary focus is on NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services), encompassing systems engineering, avionics integration, electronic warfare development, and mission systems testing. She procures specialized technical services for airborne sensor suites, communication networks, navigation systems, and embedded software, requiring deep domain expertise in military aviation platforms and defense-grade engineering standards.