Licia Haws

Licia Haws serves as a key procurement professional within NASA’s IT Procurement Office (80TECH), where she manages mission-critical information technology acquisitions that directly support aerospace research, scientific computing, and spacecraft data systems. Her work ensures the agency’s access to high-performance computing infrastructure, secure data processing platforms, and real-time analytics services essential for mission success. She specializes in complex IT service contracts requiring stringent compliance with federal cybersecurity standards and technical interoperability requirements, often coordinating with engineering and science teams to align procurement outcomes with NASA’s strategic technology roadmap. Haws maintains consistent, long-term relationships with core contractors including ZWICKROELL, LP and ABSOLUTE EMC LLC, both of which deliver specialized computing infrastructure, data hosting, and high-fidelity simulation services. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based contracting, with a focus on service-level agreements, scalability, and continuous system modernization. These vendor partnerships are characterized by deep technical collaboration, iterative delivery models, and adherence to NASA’s stringent data integrity and mission assurance protocols. Haws’ contracting portfolio reflects a singular focus on open competition, with 100% of her acquisitions conducted without set-asides for 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs. This reflects a strategic alignment with NASA’s need for specialized, large-scale IT capabilities that currently reside primarily in the broader commercial market rather than among small business vendors with the requisite technical depth. Her primary procurement focus is exclusively under NAICS 518210, encompassing computing infrastructure providers, data processing, and web hosting services. She routinely acquires cloud-native environments, high-performance computing clusters, secure data lakes, and real-time telemetry processing systems—all critical to NASA’s scientific data analysis and mission operations. Her expertise lies at the intersection of federal procurement policy and advanced computational science, ensuring that NASA’s IT systems remain at the forefront of aerospace innovation.