Cassandra Leza

Cassandra Leza serves as a key procurement professional within the FA2518 USSF SPOC/SAIO, supporting the Department of the Air Force’s mission to sustain and modernize critical space domain capabilities. She manages acquisitions for specialized engineering and technical services essential to space-based surveillance, satellite communications, and electromagnetic warfare systems. Her work directly enables operational superiority in contested space environments by ensuring timely delivery of advanced, mission-critical solutions. Leza routinely handles complex, requirements-driven contracts under FAR Part 15, focusing on performance-based, outcome-oriented procurements that align with USSF strategic priorities in space domain awareness and resilient architecture. Leza maintains consistent partnerships with leading technical contractors including Keystone Mission Solutions Corp, Riverside Research Institute, and Bowhead Information Technology Service LLC. These relationships reflect a preference for established defense-industrial base firms with proven expertise in space systems engineering, signal intelligence, and secure communications. Her contracting approach emphasizes long-term vendor collaboration, leveraging past performance and technical capability evaluations to ensure mission readiness and system interoperability across contested and congested domains. Her procurement portfolio is evenly split between unrestricted and Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, demonstrating a balanced commitment to both enterprise-scale capabilities and small business innovation. While no specific socioeconomic set-asides dominate, her consistent use of small business set-asides signals a deliberate effort to broaden the supplier base and foster competition among qualified niche providers in the national security space sector. Leza’s primary NAICS focus lies in Engineering Services (541330) and All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (541990), reflecting her specialization in advanced space systems engineering, RF and communications architecture, and mission-critical research support. She procures services ranging from satellite payload integration and signal processing to electromagnetic environment modeling and space systems sustainment, underscoring deep technical alignment with USSF’s modernization imperatives.