Heather Hirshman

Heather Hirshman serves as a key procurement professional within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), supporting the agency’s mission to advance environmental science through targeted acquisition of specialized industrial equipment and research infrastructure. She manages contracts for high-precision manufacturing systems critical to NOAA’s oceanographic and atmospheric monitoring programs, ensuring alignment with federal acquisition regulations and technical specifications for scientific instrumentation. Her portfolio centers on the procurement of custom industrial molds and tooling essential for the production of durable, high-performance sensors, buoys, and data collection platforms deployed across marine and coastal environments. Her primary contractor relationships include Wisconsin Educational Communications Board, Tronconi Segarra & Associates LLP, JNB Services LLC, Pure Enviro-Management, LLC, and The Regents of the University of Colorado—organizations recognized for their expertise in niche manufacturing, environmental compliance, and research support services. Hirshman cultivates long-term partnerships with vendors capable of delivering highly engineered, low-volume production runs under strict quality control standards, often requiring technical collaboration to meet NOAA’s operational and environmental durability requirements. She maintains a 100% Small Business Set-Aside preference under FAR 19.5, consistently directing acquisitions to small businesses without regard to specific socioeconomic categories, reflecting a strong institutional commitment to broad-based small business participation. Her contracting patterns prioritize agility, innovation, and capacity-building among small manufacturers with proven capabilities in precision fabrication and environmental resilience. Her procurement focus is exclusively aligned with NAICS 333511 (Industrial Mold Manufacturing), underscoring her technical expertise in acquiring custom molds, dies, and tooling systems used to produce NOAA’s mission-critical environmental monitoring hardware. This specialization demands deep understanding of materials science, thermal tolerances, and marine-grade fabrication processes, positioning her as a strategic link between scientific requirements and industrial production capabilities.