Lilyana Pequeno

Lilyana Pequeno serves as a key procurement professional at NASA Johnson Space Center, supporting the agency’s mission to advance human spaceflight systems and life sciences research. She manages complex acquisitions aligned with mission-critical operational needs, particularly in support activities for air transportation and administrative management consulting. Her work ensures the timely delivery of specialized services and technical support essential to crewed space missions, including spacecraft systems integration, microgravity research infrastructure, and mission operations readiness. Pequeno’s acquisitions are strategically aligned with NASA’s long-term goals for deep space exploration, emphasizing reliability, innovation, and mission assurance in all contracted services. She maintains consistent relationships with high-impact contractors including Sierra Space Corp, Aspera Biomedicines, Inc., and Single Crystal Diamond Inc., reflecting a focus on advanced aerospace technologies, biomedical research tools, and high-performance materials. Her contracting patterns favor established industry leaders with proven technical capabilities in space-environment systems, suggesting a preference for vendors with deep domain expertise and rigorous quality control standards. These partnerships are typically structured as performance-based, non-commercial service contracts requiring stringent compliance with NASA engineering and safety protocols. Pequeno’s procurement portfolio reflects a strong emphasis on open competition, with 100% of awards issued under no set-aside preferences. This indicates a strategic prioritization of technical merit and mission readiness over socioeconomic classifications, aligning with NASA’s need for specialized, non-redundant capabilities that are often unavailable from small business pools. Her approach underscores a mission-first procurement philosophy, where technical capability and system integration expertise outweigh socioeconomic targeting criteria. Her primary NAICS focus areas—488190 (Other Support Activities for Air Transportation) and 541611 (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services)—reveal expertise in procuring logistics support, flight operations coordination, and systems engineering consulting. These categories reflect her role in enabling mission-critical infrastructure, from ground-based flight support to operational planning for lunar and deep space missions, underscoring her technical fluency in aerospace systems management and mission operations.