Science Mission Directorate NASA

Camille Alleyne serves as a key liaison within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at Headquarters, overseeing the strategic acquisition of scientific instruments, spaceflight hardware, and mission-enabling technologies that support NASA’s planetary science, astrophysics, and Earth science initiatives. In this role, she ensures procurement activities align with the Directorate’s scientific objectives, managing complex contracts for research and development, systems integration, and mission operations support. Her work bridges scientific requirements with acquisition policy, ensuring compliance with federal regulations while enabling innovation in space-based exploration and data collection. While specific contractor relationships are not publicly detailed in available records, Alleyne’s portfolio typically engages a broad spectrum of aerospace and scientific technology providers, including large primes with deep spaceflight experience and specialized research institutions. Her contracting approach emphasizes technical rigor, mission-critical performance, and long-term program sustainability, often requiring multi-year, performance-based acquisitions that demand high levels of systems engineering and risk management. Alleyne’s procurement patterns reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions classified as non-set-aside. This indicates a focus on selecting the most technically capable offerors regardless of socioeconomic status, consistent with the high-stakes, mission-critical nature of NASA’s science programs. While small business participation is not prioritized through set-asides, she may still engage qualified small firms through subcontracting or teaming arrangements under full and open competitions. Her technical domain centers on advanced scientific instrumentation, remote sensing systems, spacecraft avionics, and data processing infrastructure. She routinely procures under NAICS categories related to aerospace manufacturing, scientific research and development, and electromagnetic and optical instrument manufacturing. Her expertise lies in translating complex scientific missions into executable acquisition strategies that deliver cutting-edge capabilities for NASA’s flagship science missions.