William Battles

William Battles serves as a key procurement lead for the Commanding Officer (N63394) under the Department of the Navy, responsible for managing acquisitions that sustain and modernize naval aviation and electronic warfare systems. He oversees the procurement of mission-critical aerospace components, advanced electronic assemblies, cybersecurity-enabled communications infrastructure, and specialized engineering services essential to maintaining fleet readiness. His portfolio focuses on high-integrity technical systems requiring stringent compliance with defense standards, including MIL-STD and DoD cybersecurity frameworks, ensuring that acquired technologies meet operational demands in contested environments. His primary contractor relationships are centered on Lockheed Martin Corporation and Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, with whom he collaborates on complex systems integration and rapid prototyping efforts. These partnerships are characterized by long-term technical alignment, performance-based contracting, and iterative development cycles aligned with Navy aviation modernization roadmaps. While major primes dominate his award stream, he maintains a disciplined vendor engagement process that ensures technical fidelity and supply chain resilience across classified and unclassified platforms. Battles demonstrates a strong commitment to small business participation, with 41.9% of his acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. He consistently leverages small business capabilities for niche engineering support, maintenance services, and specialized logistics, fostering a diverse supplier base without compromising mission-critical performance requirements. His contracting patterns reflect a balanced approach—prioritizing industrial base resilience while ensuring compliance with socioeconomic objectives. His primary NAICS focus includes commercial and industrial machinery repair (811310), used goods moving (484210), and other computer-related services (541519), suggesting a significant emphasis on sustainment, logistics, and IT support functions for deployed aviation systems. Though some NAICS codes appear atypical for naval aviation, they reflect the breadth of ancillary services required to maintain operational tempo, including facility maintenance, equipment relocation, and embedded IT infrastructure support critical to forward-deployed squadrons.