Lisa Morales

Lisa Morales serves as a key procurement professional at NASA Kennedy Space Center, supporting the agency’s mission to sustain and modernize critical launch infrastructure and flight systems. She manages a specialized portfolio of professional, scientific, and technical services contracts essential to mission readiness, including systems engineering, safety analysis, and launch operations support. Her work directly enables the integration of next-generation launch vehicles and autonomous flight systems, ensuring compliance with stringent aerospace safety and environmental standards. Morales focuses on complex, mission-critical acquisitions that require deep technical expertise and rigorous risk mitigation protocols. She maintains consistent contracting relationships with NUMUNU MARTINEZ JV, LLC and CINKA CONSTRUCTION & CONSULTING SERVICES LLC, both of which provide specialized engineering, technical advisory, and mission support services. These partnerships reflect a preference for joint ventures and small business entities capable of delivering niche capabilities in aerospace operations, facility modernization, and systems integration. Her contracting approach emphasizes collaborative, performance-based outcomes and long-term vendor alignment with NASA’s strategic objectives. Morales demonstrates a robust commitment to socioeconomic contracting, with 100% of her awarded contracts set aside for 8(a) competitive acquisitions. This pattern underscores her dedication to fostering opportunity for small, disadvantaged businesses with proven expertise in high-consequence technical domains. Her procurement strategy actively leverages the 8(a) program to build a resilient, diverse supplier base capable of meeting NASA’s demanding technical requirements. Her primary focus is on NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing specialized engineering support, mission assurance, and technical consulting for launch processing and flight systems. She procures services that support propulsion testing, launch pad integration, and safety compliance, requiring deep domain knowledge in aerospace systems and federal acquisition regulations. Her expertise lies in bridging technical complexity with regulatory precision to deliver mission-critical outcomes.