Victoria Stevenson

Kristin Tauber serves as a key procurement professional at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where she manages acquisitions critical to advancing human spaceflight systems and life sciences research. Her work centers on securing specialized technical services that support mission-critical operations, including spacecraft systems development, microgravity physiology studies, and radiation biology research. She primarily handles complex, high-precision contracts for custom software and systems integration, ensuring alignment with NASA’s strategic goals for deep space exploration. Her acquisitions are tightly aligned with mission assurance requirements, emphasizing reliability, compliance, and technical innovation in support of crewed missions to low Earth orbit, the Moon, and beyond. Tauber maintains consistent partnerships with a focused set of contractors, including Sierra Space Corp, Aspera Biomedicines, Inc., and Single Crystal Diamond Inc., each bringing niche capabilities in advanced life support systems, biomedical instrumentation, and specialized materials. Her procurement approach reflects a preference for established technical partners with proven expertise in aerospace and life science domains, fostering long-term collaborations grounded in rigorous performance standards and systems engineering rigor. These relationships are built on sustained delivery of mission-enabling solutions rather than transactional vendor interactions. Her contracting portfolio reflects no use of socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This indicates a strategic emphasis on technical merit and mission readiness over socioeconomic preferences, prioritizing capability and compliance in a domain where mission success hinges on precision and reliability. Tauber’s procurement focus is exclusively within NAICS 541511—Custom Computer Programming Services—reflecting deep specialization in software development for spaceflight systems, data analytics platforms, life science modeling tools, and real-time mission operations software. She procures highly tailored, mission-critical applications that integrate with NASA’s human spaceflight infrastructure, requiring deep domain knowledge in aerospace software architecture, embedded systems, and scientific computing environments.