Ms. Heidi Bowman, Technical POC

Ms. Heidi Bowman serves as the Technical Point of Contact for the Missile Defense Agency, providing critical technical oversight and requirements validation for high-priority missile defense acquisition programs. She plays a central role in bridging operational needs with engineering execution, ensuring that procurement actions align with the MDA’s mission to develop and field integrated, layered missile defense systems. Her work primarily supports research and development acquisitions for advanced sensor architectures, midcourse and terminal-phase interceptors, battle management command and control systems, and hypersonic defense technologies. Bowman’s expertise ensures technical rigor is embedded in solicitation development, source selection, and contract performance evaluation. She maintains consistent, long-term relationships with leading defense prime contractors including Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, partnering with them on complex, systems-integration-heavy projects requiring deep technical collaboration. Her procurement patterns reflect a preference for large-scale, mission-critical R&D contracts that demand multidisciplinary engineering capabilities, often involving systems engineering, modeling and simulation, and live-fire test support. Jacobs Technology Inc. is also a frequent collaborator, particularly in test range modernization and data analytics services. Ms. Bowman’s acquisition portfolio exhibits no set-aside preferences, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects the MDA’s operational imperative to access the highest-tier technical capabilities available in the defense industrial base, prioritizing mission effectiveness over socioeconomic classifications. Her procurement activity is exclusively focused on NAICS 541715—Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences—underscoring her specialization in advanced defense technologies. She procures cutting-edge capabilities in radar signal processing, kinetic and non-kinetic interceptors, discrimination algorithms, and integrated fire control systems, supporting the MDA’s strategic goal of maintaining technological superiority against evolving ballistic and hypersonic threats.