Lisa A Nevitt

Lisa A. Nevitt serves as a Contract Negotiator for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Propulsion Directorate under FA8650, where she plays a pivotal role in securing advanced aerospace technologies critical to U.S. air and space dominance. She specializes in negotiating complex research and development contracts focused on next-generation propulsion systems, hypersonic flight technologies, and high-performance functional materials. Her work directly supports the agency’s mission to accelerate the transition of fundamental scientific breakthroughs into operational capabilities, ensuring the Air Force maintains technological superiority through timely, compliant, and technically rigorous procurement actions. Nevitt maintains consistent, long-term 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 are characterized by deep technical collaboration, often involving classified or controlled unclassified information requiring stringent security protocols. She frequently engages vendors with proven expertise in propulsion system integration, adaptive flight control algorithms, and advanced composite manufacturing, fostering innovation through performance-based contracting and incentive structures aligned with mission-critical outcomes. Nevitt’s contracting portfolio is exclusively non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects the highly specialized nature of the technologies procured, which demand niche engineering capabilities rarely found among small business concerns. While she does not prioritize socioeconomic set-asides, her approach ensures technical excellence and mission readiness by prioritizing capability over socioeconomic categorization. Her primary procurement focus is NAICS 541712—Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences—encompassing fundamental and applied R&D in propulsion physics, materials science, and high-temperature system design. She routinely negotiates contracts for computational modeling, wind tunnel testing, hypersonic material validation, and propulsion component prototyping, demonstrating deep fluency in technical specifications and test protocol requirements essential to advancing next-generation aerospace systems.