Sharon Haywood

Sharon Haywood serves as a Contracting Officer for the FA8823 Sustainment MCPNT SSC/PKL under the Department of the Air Force, where she manages critical acquisitions to sustain and modernize aerospace and space-based defense systems. Her portfolio centers on the lifecycle support of guided missile systems, satellite communications platforms, and global navigation infrastructure, ensuring operational readiness through timely and compliant contract actions. She specializes in complex engineering and technical services contracts, often involving systems integration, sustainment upgrades, and mission-critical hardware procurement aligned with Air Force Space Command priorities. While specific contractor names are not disclosed in available data, Haywood engages with a diverse ecosystem of defense contractors and technical service providers, including prime systems integrators and specialized subcontractors with expertise in avionics, RF communications, and space systems sustainment. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for performance-based acquisition strategies, emphasizing outcome-driven requirements and rigorous technical oversight to meet mission-critical timelines and security standards. Haywood demonstrates a strong commitment to small business participation, with 16.7% of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5, reflecting a deliberate effort to foster innovation and capacity within the defense industrial base. Though the majority of her contracts are open to full and open competition, she actively leverages socioeconomic programs to expand vendor diversity, particularly supporting small disadvantaged and service-disabled veteran-owned businesses where mission requirements permit. Her primary procurement focus lies within NAICS 334511, encompassing the acquisition of search, detection, navigation, and guidance systems—including radar, inertial navigation, and GPS-enabled hardware—alongside NAICS 541712 for research and development in aerospace engineering and NAICS 334220 for wireless communications equipment. She possesses deep technical familiarity with space-based command and control architectures, electronic warfare support systems, and secure data link technologies, ensuring that all acquisitions align with Air Force modernization objectives and national security imperatives.