Amy Stencil

Amy Stencil serves as a key procurement professional at NASA Johnson Space Center, supporting the agency’s mission to advance human spaceflight systems and life sciences capabilities. She manages complex acquisitions for spacecraft guidance and control systems, radiation biology instrumentation, and microgravity physiology research platforms, ensuring alignment with NASA’s strategic goals for crewed missions beyond low Earth orbit. Her work spans the full lifecycle of contract solicitation, evaluation, and award, with a focus on high-risk, high-reward technologies critical to sustaining human life in deep space environments. She operates within a highly specialized technical domain requiring rigorous compliance with federal aerospace standards and interagency coordination. Her primary contractor relationships include Sierra Space Corp, Aspera Biomedicines, Inc., and Single Crystal Diamond Inc., reflecting a focus on cutting-edge space vehicle manufacturing and advanced biomedical materials. These partnerships are characterized by long-term, performance-based collaborations involving proprietary technologies and specialized engineering services. Stencil consistently engages with vendors possessing deep domain expertise in aerospace systems, radiation-hardened electronics, and space-qualified life support components, prioritizing technical capability over cost alone in source selection. Amy Stencil’s procurement portfolio is entirely classified under “No Set-Aside,” indicating a deliberate focus on full and open competition. This reflects a strategic preference for accessing the most technically capable providers, regardless of socioeconomic status, to meet the non-negotiable performance demands of human spaceflight systems. While small business participation is not formally incentivized in her portfolio, her awards still occasionally include qualified small businesses that demonstrate unique technical advantages. Her work is exclusively aligned with NAICS 336414—Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing—encompassing the design, integration, and testing of crewed spacecraft systems, life support hardware, and mission-critical avionics. She procures advanced components such as radiation-shielded avionics, microgravity fluid management systems, and high-purity crystalline materials for space-based sensors, requiring deep technical fluency in aerospace engineering and space environment qualification protocols.