LaToya McGee-Willis

LaToya McGee-Willis serves as a Contract Specialist within the FA8823 Sustainment MCPNT SSC/PKL under the Department of the Air Force, where she plays a pivotal role in executing complex acquisition strategies to sustain and modernize critical aerospace and space-based defense systems. Her responsibilities encompass the full lifecycle management of research and development contracts, ensuring technical compliance, risk mitigation, and mission alignment for guided missile systems, satellite communications platforms, and global navigation infrastructure. She specializes in procuring advanced engineering services and scientific R&D solutions that directly support operational readiness and technological superiority in space and missile domains. McGee-Willis collaborates with a diverse array of defense contractors and technical service providers, primarily engaged in systems engineering, analytical modeling, and mission-critical software development for space and missile architectures. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently works with firms possessing deep expertise in aerospace systems integration, signal processing, and command and control infrastructure. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, technical rigor, and contract compliance, fostering long-term partnerships with vendors capable of delivering high-assurance solutions under stringent security and operational constraints. Her procurement patterns reflect a strict focus on open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted without set-aside preferences, including no use of 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. This reflects a mission-driven prioritization of technical capability and mission-critical performance over socioeconomic preferences, consistent with the high-stakes nature of national security space and missile sustainment. Her primary NAICS focus is 541712—Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)—indicating a deep specialization in procuring advanced engineering R&D services, including systems analysis, sensor development, orbital mechanics modeling, and secure communications architecture design. She consistently acquires technical services that enable the sustainment and evolution of next-generation space and missile systems critical to U.S. defense posture.