Laura E. Segovia Figueroa

Laura E. Segovia Figueroa serves as a key procurement lead within the Air Force Test Center’s PZZC at Eglin Air Force Base, supporting the Department of the Air Force’s mission to accelerate the development and validation of next-generation aerospace systems. She manages complex acquisitions for advanced flight test support, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, and integrated avionics infrastructure, ensuring rapid prototyping and operational readiness of hypersonic platforms, fifth-generation datalinks, and sensor fusion technologies. Her work directly enables the transition of experimental capabilities from lab to live test environments, aligning procurement strategy with the agency’s priority to maintain air dominance through technological innovation. Her primary contractor relationship is with L1 Enterprises Incorporated, a trusted partner providing specialized engineering and technical support services for aerospace testing and systems integration. Segovia Figueroa consistently engages this vendor for mission-critical support activities, including test range instrumentation, data acquisition systems, and real-time analytics infrastructure, fostering a long-term, performance-based contracting relationship grounded in technical reliability and operational agility. She exhibits no preference for socioeconomic set-asides, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted under full and open competition. This reflects a mission-driven focus on technical capability and schedule urgency over socioeconomic criteria, prioritizing performance and readiness over programmatic diversity targets. Her procurement portfolio is exclusively centered on NAICS 488190—Other Support Activities for Air Transportation—encompassing flight test support, range operations, instrumentation, and embedded systems integration. She specializes in procuring high-fidelity simulation environments, sensor calibration services, and real-time telemetry systems critical to validating advanced aeronautical platforms, demonstrating deep expertise in the technical domains of aerospace test and evaluation.