Annette Hawkins

Annette Hawkins serves as a key procurement professional at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where she supports the acquisition of mission-critical technical services essential to advancing deep space propulsion and space vehicle systems. Her work directly enables the Center’s mandate to develop next-generation rocket engines, guidance systems, and computational infrastructure for Moon-to-Mars exploration initiatives. Hawkins specializes in procuring high-complexity, mission-focused professional and scientific services, often involving advanced engineering analysis, systems integration, and real-time data validation for propulsion testing. She plays a central role in ensuring that acquisition strategies align with NASA’s technical objectives and federal procurement compliance standards. Her primary contractor relationships include Bastion Technologies Inc. and Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, both of which provide specialized engineering support, systems analysis, and technical consulting services critical to propulsion development and flight system validation. Hawkins fosters long-term, performance-driven partnerships with these vendors, emphasizing technical excellence, rapid prototyping, and mission-critical reliability. These relationships are characterized by sustained engagement across multiple contract vehicles, reflecting a preference for proven technical capability over transactional sourcing. Hawkins’ procurement portfolio is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a strategic emphasis on accessing the broadest possible pool of technical expertise, prioritizing capability and mission readiness over socioeconomic preferences. While small business participation is not formally targeted, vendors of all sizes compete on technical merit, ensuring the highest standards of innovation and performance. Her primary procurement focus is under NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing advanced aerospace engineering, systems modeling, computational fluid dynamics, and mission simulation services. She routinely acquires specialized technical support for propulsion system design, structural analysis, and real-time telemetry processing, underscoring her deep alignment with NASA’s core mission of enabling human exploration beyond low Earth orbit.