Audrey L. Smith

Audrey L. Smith serves as a Contracting Specialist at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), where she plays a pivotal role in acquiring geospatial intelligence technologies and analytical systems critical to national defense and disaster response operations. She manages the full lifecycle of procurements for advanced mapping, terrain modeling, and imagery analytics solutions, ensuring alignment with NGA’s strategic priorities in automation, digital geospatial infrastructure, and precision decision-making. Her acquisitions span hardware, software, and professional services essential to sustaining the agency’s mission-critical geospatial capabilities. Smith maintains consistent working relationships with leading technology providers including ESRI, L3Harris Technologies, Garmin International, Voyager Search, and Dynamic Gravity Systems LLC. These partnerships reflect a focus on high-performance geospatial platforms, sensor integration, and analytical software tools that support real-time intelligence delivery. Her procurement approach emphasizes technical interoperability, data fidelity, and system scalability, often engaging vendors with proven expertise in remote sensing, GIS architecture, and geospatial data processing. Her contracting activity shows no preference for socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a mission-driven emphasis on accessing the broadest possible pool of technical capability rather than socioeconomic targeting, aligning with NGA’s need for rapid, high-fidelity solutions in a competitive technical landscape. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 423430 (computer and peripheral equipment and software wholesale) and 541370 (surveying and mapping services), indicating strong demand for commercial-off-the-shelf geospatial software, data delivery systems, and specialized mapping services. She routinely procures digital terrain models, imagery analysis tools, and geospatial data management platforms, demonstrating deep domain expertise in the technical infrastructure underpinning modern geospatial intelligence operations.