Stacey Palivoda

Stacey Palivoda serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division (NSWC Dahlgren), supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to develop and integrate advanced naval warfare systems. She manages acquisition programs focused on the design, fabrication, and integration of specialized metal components and embedded systems critical to electronic warfare, command and control, and sensor platforms. Her work directly enables the modernization of surface ship combat systems, ensuring mission-critical capabilities are fielded with technical precision and operational reliability. Palivoda routinely handles complex, technically driven contracts requiring stringent compliance with defense standards and rapid prototyping cycles. She maintains strong, ongoing relationships with a select group of contractors, including TEX-TECH ENGINEERED COMPOSITES, LLC, TATITLEK GOVERNMENT SERVICES, INC., and 3DB LABS INC., among others. These partnerships reflect a preference for vendors capable of delivering high-precision fabricated metal products, rapid additive manufacturing solutions, and specialized support services tailored to naval systems integration. Her contracting approach emphasizes long-term vendor collaboration, technical alignment, and performance-based outcomes, fostering trust and innovation within a tightly controlled acquisition environment. Palivoda demonstrates an unwavering commitment to small business participation, directing 100% of her acquisitions toward total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This consistent policy ensures that small, agile firms—particularly those with niche expertise in metal fabrication and defense-grade manufacturing—have equitable access to critical Navy contracts. Her socioeconomic strategy prioritizes capability over size, empowering small businesses to contribute meaningfully to national defense innovation. Her procurement focus is exclusively centered on NAICS 332999, All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing, reflecting a deep specialization in custom metal components for military electronics, signal processing hardware, and ruggedized enclosures. She procures highly engineered, low-volume, high-reliability parts used in embedded computing systems, radar arrays, and electronic warfare suites, requiring expertise in materials science, tolerancing, and MIL-SPEC compliance.