Janet Fisher

Janet Fisher serves as an Engineer with the Missile Defense Agency (HQ0276), where she plays a critical role in the technical evaluation and acquisition of advanced missile defense systems. Her responsibilities include assessing engineering designs, validating system performance requirements, and supporting the procurement of cutting-edge technologies for ballistic and hypersonic threat countermeasures. She interfaces closely with program managers and technical teams to translate operational needs into solicitation requirements, ensuring that acquisitions align with the MDA’s mission to field integrated, layered defense architectures. Her procurement activities primarily focus on research and development contracts for sensor systems, interceptor technologies, and command-and-control software platforms. Janet Fisher collaborates with a broad spectrum of defense prime contractors and specialized systems integrators, including firms with deep expertise in radar signal processing, hypersonic flight dynamics, and real-time battle management systems. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages vendors with proven capabilities in missile defense R&D, often requiring dual-use technologies and rapid prototyping. Her working relationships are characterized by technical rigor, iterative feedback loops, and a strong emphasis on performance-based outcomes rather than fixed-scope deliverables. Her contracting patterns reflect a strong preference for open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions issued under non-set-aside procedures. She does not routinely utilize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, instead prioritizing technical capability and mission-critical readiness over socioeconomic criteria in her procurement decisions. Janet Fisher’s procurement focus is exclusively centered on NAICS 541715—Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences. She specializes in acquiring advanced engineering services for kinetic interceptors, midcourse tracking sensors, discrimination algorithms, and integrated battle management systems. Her technical domain expertise spans hypersonic defense architectures, radar cross-section modeling, and real-time data fusion, making her a key liaison between the MDA’s technical community and the defense R&D industrial base.