Samantha Rye

Samantha Rye serves as a key procurement professional within Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), supporting the acquisition and lifecycle management of naval vessels and mission-critical maritime systems. She plays a central role in executing complex contract actions aligned with NAVSEA’s mission to sustain and modernize the U.S. Navy’s fleet, with a focus on shipbuilding, repair, and integrated combat systems. Her portfolio encompasses large-scale, technically demanding contracts for new construction, modernization upgrades, and sustainment services for surface and undersea platforms, ensuring operational readiness through rigorous acquisition oversight and systems integration. Rye maintains strategic working relationships with leading defense prime contractors including Damen Shipbuilding & Cooperation B.V., Huntington Ingalls Incorporated, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, G.S.E. Dynamics, Inc., and Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC. These partnerships are primarily centered on ship design, hull construction, propulsion systems, and advanced naval electronics integration. Her contracting approach emphasizes long-term vendor collaboration, performance-based outcomes, and technical compliance with naval engineering standards, fostering reliable delivery of high-integrity maritime platforms. Rye’s procurement activity is exclusively conducted under open competition, with no set-asides applied to her contract actions. This reflects a deliberate focus on maximizing technical capability and industrial capacity through unrestricted competition among qualified large defense contractors, consistent with NAVSEA’s requirement for specialized, high-volume shipbuilding expertise that currently resides predominantly within the large-tier industrial base. Her procurement focus is singularly concentrated on NAICS 336611—Ship Building and Repairing—encompassing the full spectrum of naval vessel acquisition, from steel cutting to final commissioning. She oversees contracts for steel hull fabrication, combat system integration, propulsion machinery, and survivability enhancements, demonstrating deep technical fluency in naval architecture, marine engineering, and defense acquisition regulations governing shipyard operations and military specifications.