Stephanie A Broadhead

Stephanie A. Broadhead serves as a Contract Specialist within the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), where she plays a critical role in executing the acquisition lifecycle for naval aviation systems. Her responsibilities encompass the full spectrum of contract actions—from solicitation and source selection to award and contract administration—for complex aircraft platforms, avionics, and mission-critical sustainment services. She operates within NAVAIR’s mission to ensure air superiority through the development and lifecycle management of carrier-based and expeditionary aviation assets, ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations and defense procurement policies. Her portfolio primarily involves sole-source and competitive negotiated acquisitions for advanced aerospace systems. Broadhead maintains consistent working relationships with industry leaders such as Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and General Atomics, partnering with prime contractors who deliver next-generation manned and unmanned aerial systems, weapons integration, and logistics support infrastructure. These collaborations are characterized by long-term, technically intensive contract management, often involving engineering change proposals, performance-based logistics, and sustainment contracting models. Her engagements reflect a focus on mission-critical delivery and technical fidelity over volume-based procurement. Her contracting activity shows no reliance on socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic alignment with NAVAIR’s requirement for specialized aerospace capabilities that currently exist only within a limited pool of large, cleared defense contractors with the requisite security clearances, engineering expertise, and production capacity. Her procurement focus is exclusively within NAICS 336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing), encompassing the acquisition of fixed-wing and rotary-wing platforms, mission systems, propulsion components, and associated support equipment. She specializes in procuring high-performance aviation systems requiring rigorous certification, flight testing, and integration with naval carrier and expeditionary operations, demonstrating deep technical fluency in aerospace engineering and defense acquisition frameworks.