Sammatha Davis

Sammatha Davis serves as a key procurement lead within the Missile Defense Agency, supporting the development and fielding of integrated missile defense systems critical to national security. Responsible for managing complex acquisition programs under FAR Part 15, she oversees the solicitation, evaluation, and award of contracts for advanced sensor integration, missile interception technologies, and cyber-secure command and control systems. Her work directly enables MDA’s mission to deploy layered defense architectures across boost, midcourse, and terminal phases of flight, ensuring interoperability between ground-, sea-, and space-based assets. Davis specializes in high-stakes, technology-driven acquisitions requiring rigorous systems engineering and test validation, often involving classified and export-controlled deliverables. She maintains enduring partnerships with prime contractors including Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, leveraging their deep expertise in missile defense hardware and software integration. Her procurement strategy consistently involves teaming arrangements and subcontracting plans that require major primes to engage qualified small businesses, ensuring technical depth and innovation across the supply chain. Davis’s approach emphasizes performance-based contracting and risk-managed acquisition pathways tailored to rapid prototyping and fielding cycles. Davis exhibits a strong, consistent commitment to socioeconomic contracting, with 100% of her acquisitions structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. This reflects a deliberate strategy to cultivate capabilities among small businesses with specialized expertise in defense systems support, cybersecurity, and systems integration. Her portfolio prioritizes firms certified under 8(a), HUBZone, and SDVOSB programs, fostering a resilient, diverse supplier base aligned with MDA’s innovation goals. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 561621—Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths)—encompassing integrated threat detection, secure communications, and real-time data fusion systems. She procures services supporting sensor modernization, missile tracking architecture development, and defensive countermeasure integration, demonstrating deep technical fluency in missile defense systems engineering and operational test environments.