Kelli Kixmiller

Kelli Kixmiller serves as a Contracting Officer at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (N00164), where she manages the acquisition of critical electronic, electro-optical, and ordnance systems essential to naval warfare readiness. Her portfolio encompasses the full lifecycle procurement of advanced sensing, signal processing, communications, and weapons technologies supporting surface and expeditionary forces. Kixmiller specializes in complex technical acquisitions requiring rigorous engineering validation, ensuring alignment with Navy modernization priorities in electronic warfare, radar detection, and signal intelligence. She exercises full contracting authority under the Department of the Navy’s acquisition framework, balancing mission urgency with compliance to federal procurement regulations. Kixmiller maintains longstanding relationships with key defense and systems integration contractors, including Lockheed Martin Corporation, Programs Management Analytics & Technologies Inc., Integrity Defense Services Inc., and Black Hills Ammunition Inc. She also collaborates with specialized construction and site development firms such as McKenzie Construction & Site Development LLC to support infrastructure for testing and prototyping facilities. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, technical interoperability, and long-term sustainment, fostering partnerships with vendors capable of delivering high-assurance, mission-critical capabilities under strict security and quality controls. Kixmiller’s procurement portfolio reflects a strong preference for full and open competition, with 100% of her awards issued without set-asides. This indicates a strategic focus on leveraging the broadest possible industrial base to meet complex technical requirements, rather than relying on socioeconomic programs such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides. Her approach prioritizes technical capability and mission suitability over socioeconomic classifications, consistent with the high-stakes nature of Navy electronic warfare and ordnance systems. Her primary NAICS focus areas include 334419 (Other Electronic Component Manufacturing), 334511 (Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing), 541512 (Computer Systems Design Services), and 541611 (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services). She procures advanced electronic subsystems, radar and EW hardware, embedded software systems, and technical advisory services supporting the integration and sustainment of next-generation naval systems.