Laura Mabe

Laura Mabe serves as a key procurement professional within the Missile Defense Agency, supporting the development and fielding of integrated ballistic missile defense systems. She manages complex acquisitions in engineering services and systems integration, ensuring alignment with MDA’s mission to enhance layered defense capabilities across midcourse and terminal-phase interception architectures. Her work directly supports the modernization of sensors, command and control systems, and guided interceptors, often coordinating multi-year, technology-driven contracts that require rigorous technical evaluation and risk mitigation under FAR Part 15 procedures. Mabe maintains consistent contracting relationships with prime contractors including Lockheed Martin Corporation and Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, leveraging their expertise in advanced missile defense technologies and systems engineering. She also collaborates with Jacobs Technology Inc. for mission-critical support services, fostering long-term partnerships grounded in technical excellence and programmatic stability. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, systems integration, and lifecycle support, ensuring contractors deliver solutions that meet stringent operational requirements for homeland and deployed force protection. Her contracting portfolio reflects a strong commitment to socioeconomic diversity, with a pronounced preference for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) set-asides and Total Small Business Set-Asides under FAR 19.5, each accounting for 25% of her awards. She actively promotes small business participation through targeted solicitation strategies, balancing competitive needs with statutory obligations to foster innovation from niche vendors in the national security supply chain. Mabe’s primary focus lies in NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services), where she procures advanced systems engineering, technical analysis, and test support for missile defense architectures. She also engages in NAICS 541611 services for program management and systems integration consulting. Her technical domain expertise centers on ballistic missile defense systems, radar modernization, kill chain coordination, and defense software development, ensuring acquisitions align with evolving threat landscapes and next-generation interception capabilities.