Veronica Mayhew

Veronica Mayhew serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, supporting the development, testing, and sustainment of advanced naval aviation systems. She manages a diverse portfolio of technical acquisitions focused on avionics, electronic warfare, mission systems integration, and legacy platform modernization. Her work directly enables the agency’s mission to maintain air superiority through cutting-edge aerospace technology, ensuring operational readiness across the fleet. She routinely oversees contract actions under professional services and systems engineering categories, often coordinating with engineering teams to align procurement strategy with technical requirements and lifecycle support needs. Mayhew maintains established relationships with leading defense and aerospace contractors including SABRE SYSTEMS, LLC, THE BOEING COMPANY, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, SYSTEMS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, INC., and ONTIC ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING, INC. These partnerships reflect a balanced approach to sourcing, combining large prime contractors with deep technical expertise and specialized small businesses capable of delivering niche engineering and analytical services. Her contracting patterns emphasize long-term collaboration, technical fidelity, and performance-based outcomes across complex, mission-critical programs. Her procurement approach prioritizes flexibility, with 63.6% of awards issued without set-aside restrictions and 36.4% designated as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. While she does not exclusively favor specific socioeconomic categories, her consistent use of small business set-asides demonstrates a strong commitment to fostering innovation and capacity within the small business industrial base, particularly among firms offering specialized technical consulting and systems integration services. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services) and 541512 (Computer Systems Design Services), with additional emphasis on process optimization, logistics consulting, and technical analysis under 541614, 541690, and 541990. She routinely acquires services related to airborne sensor modernization, communications architecture design, mission system testing, and embedded software development, reflecting deep expertise in naval aviation systems engineering and digital transformation across defense platforms.