Victoria Platner

Victoria Platner serves as a key procurement professional within Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), supporting the Department of the Navy’s mission to sustain and modernize the U.S. fleet through strategic acquisition of naval vessels and mission-critical systems. She manages complex contract actions focused on shipbuilding and repair, ensuring alignment with naval warfare requirements and lifecycle support objectives. Her work directly enables the integration of advanced propulsion, combat systems, and hull structures across surface and undersea platforms, coordinating with engineering and program management teams to translate operational needs into executable procurement strategies. Platner’s portfolio centers on full-spectrum shipyard contracts, including new construction, mid-life upgrades, and dry-docking modernization efforts. She maintains longstanding relationships with prime contractors including Damen Shipbuilding & Cooperation B.V., Huntington Ingalls Incorporated, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, G.S.E. Dynamics, Inc., and Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC. These partnerships reflect a preference for established industrial base vendors with proven expertise in naval architecture, integrated combat systems, and shipyard infrastructure. Platner’s contracting approach emphasizes performance-based requirements, technical compliance, and risk mitigation through rigorous source selection processes, often involving multi-year, multi-phase contract structures. Platner’s procurement activity is exclusively non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic emphasis on leveraging the broadest industrial capacity to meet demanding naval specifications, prioritizing technical capability and production readiness over socioeconomic set-asides. While small business participation is not formally targeted in her portfolio, vendor diversity is maintained through subcontracting obligations and tiered supply chain engagement. Her primary focus is on NAICS 336611—Ship Building and Repairing—covering the full lifecycle of naval vessels, from steel cutting to final sea trials. She procures specialized systems including hull forms, propulsion trains, sonar arrays, and combat system integration platforms, requiring deep domain knowledge in naval engineering standards, MIL-SPEC compliance, and maritime survivability requirements.