Lori D. Manis

Lori D. Manis serves as a key procurement professional at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where she manages acquisition strategies critical to advancing the agency’s deep space exploration mission. Focused on administrative and general management consulting services, she facilitates the acquisition of high-level technical advisory support essential for propulsion system development, space vehicle integration, and mission-critical data infrastructure. Her work ensures that strategic planning, systems engineering oversight, and operational governance capabilities are effectively sourced to support NASA’s Moon to Mars architecture and real-time propulsion testing initiatives. Manis maintains consistent contracting relationships with specialized firms including Bastion Technologies Inc. and Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, both of which provide expert consulting services in systems management, mission assurance, and technical program support. Her procurement approach emphasizes long-term vendor partnerships grounded in technical proficiency and mission alignment, fostering collaborative engagements that bridge government requirements with industry innovation in aerospace systems governance. Her contracting portfolio is heavily skewed toward socioeconomic set-asides, with 75% of awards designated for HUBZone-certified firms and 25% allocated through 8(a) competed pathways. This pattern reflects a deliberate and sustained commitment to empowering small businesses located in economically distressed areas and those owned by socially and economically disadvantaged entrepreneurs, reinforcing NASA’s broader equity and resilience goals in the aerospace supply chain. The sole NAICS code dominating her portfolio—541611, Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services—reveals a specialized focus on high-stakes program management consulting. She procures services such as systems engineering integration, mission operations planning, risk management frameworks, and technical governance support, all tailored to the complex, mission-critical environment of advanced propulsion and space vehicle development. Her expertise lies in translating NASA’s technical imperatives into precise, compliant, and performance-driven acquisition requirements.