Noeleen Laughlin

Noeleen Laughlin serves as a key procurement lead at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where she oversees the acquisition of critical facilities support services essential to sustaining the Center’s advanced propulsion and space vehicle development missions. Her role is central to ensuring that mission-critical infrastructure—ranging from test stand operations to mission control support—is maintained through compliant, efficient contracting processes aligned with NASA’s deep space exploration objectives. She routinely manages complex service contracts requiring technical oversight of engineering support, facility operations, and mission-enabling logistics, ensuring alignment with federal acquisition regulations and NASA’s strategic goals for human exploration beyond low Earth orbit. Laughlin maintains strong, sustained relationships with specialized contractors including Bastion Technologies Inc. and Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, both of which provide high-assurance facilities support, technical operations, and mission infrastructure services. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for long-term, performance-based partnerships with vendors possessing deep domain expertise in aerospace facility management and propulsion test support. These relationships are characterized by consistent recompetition and performance-driven contract modifications, underscoring a focus on reliability and technical proficiency over transactional engagements. Her procurement portfolio is entirely structured under the 8(a) Competed set-aside program, demonstrating an unwavering commitment to socioeconomic contracting and the development of small disadvantaged businesses. Every award is competitively set aside for 8(a) participants, reflecting a deliberate strategy to cultivate capability within underrepresented small businesses while meeting NASA’s technical demands. This pattern reinforces a culture of inclusive growth and capacity building in the aerospace support sector. The sole NAICS focus area for her acquisitions is 561210 (Facilities Support Services), encompassing a broad range of mission-critical services including facility maintenance, engineering support, environmental systems management, and operational readiness services for rocket test stands and propulsion test facilities. Her expertise lies in procuring specialized services that directly enable the safe, continuous operation of NASA’s most advanced propulsion test infrastructure, ensuring readiness for Moon to Mars mission architectures.