Tiffany A Horty

Tiffany A. Horty serves as a Contract Specialist at the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, where she plays a pivotal role in executing complex acquisitions for advanced naval aviation systems. She manages the full lifecycle of contract actions—from requirements validation and solicitation development to award and administration—ensuring alignment with the agency’s mission to modernize airborne sensor suites, electronic warfare capabilities, and mission-critical aircraft subsystems. Her portfolio primarily encompasses technical procurement of aircraft components, avionics integration, and auxiliary equipment essential to maintaining air superiority and fleet readiness. Horty’s expertise lies in navigating the stringent compliance and performance standards required for defense aerospace contracts, ensuring timely delivery of mission-essential technologies. Horty maintains consistent working relationships with industry leaders including SABRE SYSTEMS, LLC, THE BOEING COMPANY, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, INC., and ONTIC ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC. These partnerships reflect her focus on engaging prime contractors with proven capabilities in aerospace systems integration, mission systems development, and precision manufacturing. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting, technical risk mitigation, and rigorous source selection processes to ensure mission-critical outcomes from high-caliber defense industrial base partners. Horty’s contracting activity is exclusively non-set-aside, with 100% of her awards conducted under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic alignment with the agency’s need for specialized technical expertise and mature industrial capabilities that are currently concentrated among large, established defense contractors. While small business participation is not formally prioritized in her portfolio, her process remains fully compliant with FAR requirements and supports broader agency goals through transparent, merit-based sourcing. Her primary procurement focus is under NAICS 336413 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing), with a secondary emphasis on NAICS 336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing). She specializes in acquiring flight control systems, avionics hardware, communications modules, and other mission-critical airframe-integrated components. Her domain expertise spans airborne sensor integration, electronic warfare support systems, and sustainment of legacy naval aircraft platforms, ensuring operational continuity amid modernization initiatives.