Patricia A. Hughes

Patricia A. Hughes serves as a Contract Officer at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), where she manages the acquisition of critical geospatial intelligence capabilities essential to national security and defense operations. In her role, she oversees the full lifecycle of contracts for surveying, mapping, and geospatial analytics services, ensuring alignment with NGA’s mission to deliver precise, timely, and actionable geospatial intelligence. Her acquisitions focus on advanced digital terrain modeling, automated mapping systems, and imagery analysis tools that support military planning, disaster response, and intelligence decision-making. Hughes operates within a highly technical procurement environment requiring deep domain knowledge and strict compliance with DoD acquisition regulations. She maintains consistent working relationships with leading geospatial technology providers including ESRI, L3Harris Technologies, Garmin International, Voyager Search, and Dynamic Gravity Systems LLC. These partnerships center on the procurement of enterprise mapping platforms, geospatial software suites, sensor integration systems, and real-time geolocation services. Hughes engages with vendors known for innovation in geospatial data processing, remote sensing, and geospatial infrastructure, fostering collaborative contract performance and technical adaptability to evolving mission needs. Hughes’s contracting portfolio reflects a 100% preference for full and open competition, with no set-asides designated for 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic programs. This reflects NGA’s operational imperative to access the most capable and technologically advanced solutions without restriction, prioritizing mission readiness over socioeconomic targeting in this domain. Her primary procurement focus is exclusively under NAICS 541370—Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services—encompassing high-resolution cartography, geospatial data exploitation, digital elevation modeling, and georeferenced imagery analysis. She procures specialized geospatial tools and services that enable automated feature extraction, terrain visualization, and multi-source data fusion, supporting NGA’s leadership in next-generation geospatial intelligence.