Amy Aqueche

Amy Aqueche serves as a key procurement professional at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, supporting the development and integration of advanced space systems and scientific instrumentation. She manages complex acquisitions for mission-critical hardware and electronic systems essential to Earth observation, deep-space communications, and spacecraft avionics. Her work directly enables Goddard’s mission to advance space science through the procurement of high-reliability components and specialized manufacturing services, ensuring alignment with NASA’s technical and operational requirements for spaceflight-qualified systems. Aqueche maintains strategic relationships with leading technical partners including Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory. These collaborations focus on high-precision manufacturing, sensor development, and advanced electronics integration for space environments. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for established technical partners with proven capabilities in aerospace-grade fabrication and systems engineering, often involving sole-source or limited-competition procurements due to the specialized nature of the requirements. Her procurement portfolio shows no reliance on socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects the highly technical, non-commercial nature of the systems being acquired, where proprietary designs, radiation-hardened components, and mission-critical performance thresholds limit the pool of qualified vendors regardless of business size or certification. Aqueche’s primary NAICS focus areas include nonferrous forging and foundries for structural aerospace components, electronic connector manufacturing for high-integrity signal transmission, battery manufacturing for space-rated power systems, and the manufacture of space navigation and guidance instruments. These categories underscore her expertise in procuring mission-critical hardware for spacecraft bus systems, scientific payloads, and deep-space communication terminals, requiring rigorous compliance with NASA’s technical standards and spaceflight heritage requirements.