Brittany Feiner

Brittany Feiner serves as a Contracting Specialist within the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Propulsion Directorate (FA8650), where she manages complex procurement actions supporting cutting-edge aerospace propulsion, hypersonics, and advanced materials research. Her role is central to accelerating the transition of foundational science into operational capabilities, overseeing the acquisition of engineering services that enable the design, analysis, and integration of next-generation propulsion systems and adaptive flight control technologies. She handles full lifecycle contract actions—from solicitation through award and administration—ensuring compliance with federal acquisition regulations while aligning procurement strategy with the agency’s mission to maintain U.S. air and space dominance through technological innovation. Feiner maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of high-technical-capability contractors, including UES Inc., General Electric Company, DCS Corporation, Spirit Aerosystems Inc., and Advanced Thermoplastic Composites LLC. These partnerships are characterized by deep technical collaboration, often involving proprietary research, prototype development, and systems integration for classified and unclassified defense programs. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes and technical risk mitigation, fostering long-term vendor engagement with organizations possessing specialized expertise in propulsion systems, composite materials, and high-temperature structural components. Feiner’s procurement portfolio is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted under full and open competition. This reflects the highly specialized nature of the technical requirements and the limited pool of vendors capable of meeting the rigorous performance, security, and engineering standards of AFRL’s propulsion mission. While small business participation is not formally prioritized through socioeconomic set-asides, her contracts remain accessible to all qualified offerors under open competition principles. Her primary procurement focus is squarely on NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services), encompassing advanced research, computational modeling, materials characterization, and systems engineering for hypersonic and propulsion applications. She procures services that bridge fundamental science and flight-ready prototypes, supporting the development of lightweight composites, thermal protection systems, and next-generation turbine and scramjet technologies critical to future air and space platforms.