Natasha King

Natasha King serves as a key procurement lead at NASA Langley Research Center, supporting the agency’s mission to advance aeronautics and space exploration through strategic acquisition of critical support services. She manages a portfolio focused on office administrative services essential to sustaining high-performance research operations, ensuring compliance with federal procurement regulations while enabling mission-critical R&D activities in hypersonics, spacecraft instrumentation, and advanced materials. Her acquisitions directly support the logistical, operational, and administrative infrastructure required for engineering teams, laboratories, and mission control functions at the center. King maintains consistent contracting relationships with a select group of vendors, including JACKSON BOND ENTERPRISES, LLC, the UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, and ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS CORPORATION, reflecting a blend of small business contractors and research institutions aligned with NASA’s technical and operational needs. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based service delivery, with a preference for firms capable of delivering scalable administrative support, data management, and research coordination services tailored to the unique demands of a federal aerospace research facility. Her contracting patterns reveal a 100% commitment to 8(a) competed set-asides, demonstrating a robust and deliberate focus on socioeconomic empowerment through small business participation. She actively prioritizes historically underrepresented and disadvantaged businesses, ensuring that federal contracting opportunities directly contribute to the growth of certified 8(a) firms capable of delivering high-quality administrative and operational support to complex government missions. King’s procurement activities are exclusively categorized under NAICS 561110 (Office Administrative Services), indicating deep specialization in procurement of clerical, records management, scheduling, and facility support services. Her domain expertise lies in acquiring services that sustain the administrative backbone of scientific research environments—ensuring seamless coordination between engineering teams, data analysts, and mission planners without diverting resources from core technical objectives.