Alina Grecu

Alina Grecu serves as a key procurement professional within the FA8810 Space Sensing SSc/SNK, supporting the Department of the Air Force’s mission to develop and integrate resilient, next-generation space-based sensing systems for missile warning, medium Earth orbit (MEO) tracking, and overhead persistent infrared (OPIR) battlespace awareness. She manages complex research and development acquisitions focused on advanced sensor architectures, signal processing algorithms, and space-hardened hardware designed to operate in contested orbital environments. Her work directly enables the modernization of national space surveillance and early warning capabilities, ensuring operational superiority in an increasingly congested and adversarial domain. Grecu collaborates with a broad spectrum of defense aerospace contractors, including prime systems integrators, specialized R&D firms, and niche technology developers with expertise in infrared focal plane arrays, space-based data fusion, and autonomous anomaly detection. Her contracting approach emphasizes technical innovation and rapid prototyping, fostering long-term partnerships with vendors capable of delivering high-fidelity, low-latency space sensing solutions under stringent performance and security requirements. She prioritizes performance-based contracting and risk-sharing mechanisms to accelerate capability delivery. Grecu’s procurement portfolio reflects a strict focus on open competition, with 100% of acquisitions conducted without set-asides, indicating a preference for full and open competition to ensure access to the broadest pool of technical expertise. While small business participation is not formally mandated through socioeconomic programs, she actively encourages collaboration between prime contractors and qualified small businesses as subcontractors to enhance innovation and workforce diversity. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 541715—Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences—centered on advanced space sensing technologies, including OPIR sensor development, MEO constellation integration, space domain awareness analytics, and ground segment modernization. She routinely sources cutting-edge capabilities in electro-optical/infrared systems, space-based data links, and AI-enabled battle management tools critical to next-generation space defense architectures.