Selina Jones

Selina Jones serves as a key procurement professional within Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport, supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to advance cutting-edge maritime warfare systems. She manages complex research and development acquisitions focused on naval sensor arrays, electronic warfare components, and integrated communication architectures critical to undersea, surface, and aerial domain superiority. Her work directly enables the testing, evaluation, and fielding of next-generation naval technologies, ensuring operational readiness through timely and technically rigorous contract execution. Jones specializes in high-stakes R&D contracts that demand deep technical oversight and close collaboration with engineering teams to align procurement outcomes with operational requirements. She maintains long-standing partnerships with leading defense and aerospace contractors including Science Applications International Corporation, Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, Astronics Test Systems Inc, Serco Inc, and Mikel Inc. These relationships are characterized by sustained engagement on technical innovation projects, often involving prototype development, systems integration, and live-field testing of advanced maritime systems. Jones fosters collaborative contracting environments that emphasize performance-based outcomes, technical compliance, and iterative delivery cycles aligned with rapid prototyping and agile acquisition frameworks. Jones’s procurement portfolio reflects a strict focus on non-set-aside contracts, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic prioritization of technical capability and mission-critical performance over socioeconomic preferences, ensuring access to the most qualified industry partners for highly specialized naval systems development. Her primary procurement activity centers on NAICS 541712—Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences—where she consistently acquires advanced sonar systems, signal processing hardware, autonomous navigation algorithms, and electronic countermeasure technologies. Her expertise lies in managing contracts for classified and unclassified R&D efforts that bridge laboratory innovation with fleet-deployable capabilities.