Shadonna Minnis

Shadonna Minnis serves as a key procurement professional at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, supporting the acquisition of advanced scientific instrumentation and space-based communication systems critical to Earth observation and deep-space missions. She manages complex contracting actions aligned with NASA’s strategic goals in space science and technology development, focusing on high-precision instrument manufacturing, telecommunications infrastructure, and applied research services. Her work ensures timely delivery of mission-critical systems that enable cutting-edge planetary exploration, climate monitoring, and space weather analysis, bridging technical requirements with federal acquisition regulations to support mission success. Minnis maintains strong working relationships with leading technical partners including Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lexington division. These collaborations center on the design, integration, and testing of specialized aerospace sensors and advanced data processing systems. Her contracting approach emphasizes long-term technical partnership, leveraging institutional expertise from federally funded research centers and niche aerospace contractors to meet stringent performance and reliability standards required for spaceflight applications. Minnis’s procurement portfolio reflects a uniform focus on full and open competition, with 100% of awards issued without set-aside designations such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB. This indicates a strategic preference for sourcing from organizations with proven technical capability in highly specialized domains, prioritizing mission readiness over socioeconomic preferences. Her contracting patterns align with NASA’s mission-critical needs, where technical superiority and system integration expertise outweigh socioeconomic targeting criteria. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 334515 for high-sensitivity electrical measurement instrumentation, NAICS 517919 for other telecommunications services supporting space-ground networks, and NAICS 541714 for biotechnology research applications relevant to life sciences in space environments. These categories reflect a deep specialization in scientific instrumentation, space communications, and applied research services essential to Goddard’s operational and exploratory missions.