Valerie Smith

Valerie Smith serves as a key procurement professional at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (N00164), where she supports the acquisition of advanced electronic, electro-optical, and ordnance systems critical to naval warfare readiness. She manages complex contracting actions for mission-critical technologies including signal processing, radar detection, electronic warfare suites, and precision guidance systems. Her role is central to the agency’s mission of sustaining and modernizing expeditionary and surface force capabilities, ensuring timely delivery of high-integrity technical solutions through full and open competition. Smith routinely handles sole-source, competitive, and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts requiring rigorous technical validation and systems integration. She maintains strategic partnerships with leading defense contractors including Lockheed Martin Corporation, Programs Management Analytics & Technologies Inc., and Black Hills Ammunition Inc., reflecting a preference for established industry leaders with proven expertise in military-grade electronics and ordnance systems. Her contracting patterns indicate deep collaboration with vendors capable of delivering classified, ruggedized, and field-deployable technologies under strict compliance with DoD standards. These relationships are characterized by long-term technical alignment and sustained performance on high-priority programs. Valerie Smith’s procurement activity is exclusively conducted under full and open competition, with no set-asides for 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic programs. This reflects a mission-driven emphasis on technical capability over socioeconomic preferences, prioritizing performance, reliability, and system interoperability above all other factors in award decisions. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 334511, encompassing the acquisition of search, detection, navigation, and guidance systems, with secondary emphasis on power transformer manufacturing (335311) and engineering services (541330). She specializes in procuring embedded electronics, sensor arrays, waveform generators, and high-reliability power systems for naval platforms, demonstrating deep domain expertise in electronic warfare, signal intelligence, and weapons system sustainment.