Tiffany Balat-Bueno

Tiffany Balat-Bueno serves as a key procurement professional within the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center, supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to sustain and modernize naval surface platforms. She manages complex acquisitions for shipbuilding and repair activities, focusing on structural metal systems, mechanical subsystems, and critical components essential to fleet readiness. Her work ensures the timely delivery of high-integrity materials and industrial services that maintain operational readiness across the Navy’s surface fleet, aligning with strategic priorities in naval infrastructure resilience and long-term vessel sustainment. She maintains enduring relationships with core industrial partners including Fairlead Boatworks, Inc., General Dynamics Information Technology, Howard W. Pence, Inc., and Kampi Components Co., Inc., all of which provide specialized shipyard services, precision fabrication, and technical support. These vendor partnerships are characterized by long-term performance reliability, technical expertise in naval-grade fabrication, and consistent compliance with Navy quality and safety standards. Her contracting approach emphasizes proven capability and mission-critical delivery over transactional procurement, fostering collaborative, performance-based vendor relationships. Her procurement activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic emphasis on accessing the broadest possible pool of qualified industrial capacity to meet the technical demands of naval maintenance and modernization, rather than leveraging socioeconomic set-asides. While small business participation is not formally prioritized through set-aside mechanisms, her contracting decisions are driven by technical merit, past performance, and industrial capacity. Her primary focus is on NAICS 336611 — Ship Building and Repairing — encompassing the procurement of structural steel assemblies, welding and fabrication services, propulsion subsystems, and hull integrity components. She possesses deep domain expertise in naval shipyard operations, metallurgical specifications, and military-grade manufacturing standards, ensuring all acquired goods and services meet rigorous Navy technical and safety requirements.