Vicki Mathis

Vicki Mathis serves as a key procurement professional within the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division, supporting the acquisition of advanced aviation systems critical to maintaining naval air superiority. She manages complex contracts for the development, testing, and sustainment of mission-critical avionics, electronic warfare suites, and aircraft subsystems, ensuring alignment with the Navy’s modernization priorities. Her work directly enables the integration of next-generation sensor technologies and communication platforms into frontline aircraft, bridging engineering requirements with operational readiness goals. Mathis handles a portfolio of engineering, systems integration, and manufacturing acquisitions, often coordinating across technical and operational stakeholders to deliver capability-driven outcomes. She maintains strong, long-standing relationships with leading defense 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 focus on high-technology systems engineering, aircraft component manufacturing, and mission-critical logistics consulting. Mathis consistently engages with prime contractors capable of delivering integrated solutions across multiple domains, emphasizing technical rigor, schedule adherence, and sustainment support for legacy and emerging platforms. Mathis’s procurement activity is exclusively 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 technical expertise and industrial capacity to meet demanding performance requirements. While small business participation is not formally prioritized through socioeconomic set-asides, her contracting approach remains competitive and transparent, ensuring value-driven outcomes without artificial constraints. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing) and 336413 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing), complemented by significant activity in 541614 (Process and Logistics Consulting) and 541330 (Engineering Services). She specializes in acquiring advanced airborne systems, including radar, electronic attack components, navigation suites, and mission computer integrations, demonstrating deep familiarity with defense aerospace engineering standards and DoD acquisition protocols.