Lindsay Landes

Lindsay Landes serves as a Contract Specialist within the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Propulsion Directorate (FA8650), where she manages complex acquisitions supporting advanced aerospace propulsion, hypersonics, and high-performance materials research. Her role is critical to accelerating the transition of cutting-edge technologies from laboratory innovation to operational capability, overseeing full lifecycle contract actions for research, development, and engineering services. She specializes in securing technical expertise through competitive and sole-source mechanisms to meet urgent national defense priorities in air and space dominance. Landes maintains sustained relationships with leading aerospace and defense contractors including UES Inc., General Electric Company, DCS Corporation, Spirit Aerosystems Inc., and Advanced Thermoplastic Composites LLC. These partnerships reflect a focus on high-caliber technical providers with proven capabilities in propulsion system design, adaptive flight control, and advanced composite materials development. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, technical rigor, and long-term collaboration with vendors possessing deep domain expertise in propulsion science and materials engineering. Landes’ procurement portfolio reflects a strict focus on open competition, with 100% of her awards issued under no set-aside preferences. This underscores a mission-driven prioritization of technical excellence and capability over socioeconomic categorization, ensuring the most qualified entities—regardless of size or status—are selected to meet the Air Force’s demanding R&D requirements. Her primary NAICS focus areas are 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services) and 541712 (Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences), reflecting her specialization in securing non-biotech scientific and engineering services. She procures advanced materials characterization, computational fluid dynamics modeling, propulsion system prototyping, and hypersonic test validation services, consistently aligning acquisitions with the Propulsion Directorate’s strategic goals in next-generation air and space power.