Anne C. Peel

Anne Peel serves as a Contracting Officer for the Missile Defense Agency, where she plays a pivotal role in securing critical research, development, and systems integration capabilities essential to national missile defense. She manages complex acquisition programs spanning advanced sensor architectures, interceptor systems, command-and-control platforms, and hypersonic threat countermeasures. Her work directly supports the MDA’s mission to field layered, interoperable defense systems through rapid prototyping, rigorous testing, and technology maturation. Peel specializes in full-life-cycle contracting for high-technology defense R&D, ensuring compliance with FAR and DFARS while aligning procurements with strategic defense priorities and operational readiness timelines. Her contractor relationships are primarily with prime defense technology firms and research institutions specializing in aerospace engineering, radar systems, and missile interception technologies. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages with vendors possessing deep expertise in systems integration, modeling and simulation, and real-time data fusion. Her procurement approach emphasizes technical excellence, innovation, and performance-based outcomes, fostering long-term partnerships with contractors capable of meeting the Agency’s demanding technical and security requirements. Anne Peel’s contracting patterns reflect a strong preference for unrestricted competition, with 100% of her awards issued under no set-aside classifications. This underscores her focus on selecting the most technically capable providers regardless of socioeconomic status, prioritizing mission-critical performance over socioeconomic preferences. While she does not routinely utilize 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides, her approach ensures that all procurements are grounded in objective technical merit and national security imperatives. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541715 and 541712, reflecting an intense specialization in physical and engineering research and development. She procures advanced defense technologies including radar discrimination algorithms, kinetic kill vehicle systems, battle management software, and hypersonic tracking architectures, requiring deep domain expertise in defense systems engineering and test evaluation methodologies.