Sheryl Kopczynski

Sheryl Kopczynski serves as a key procurement professional at NASA Langley Research Center, supporting the agency’s mission to advance aeronautics and space exploration through research and development. She manages a portfolio of scientific and engineering contracts focused on physical, engineering, and life sciences research, ensuring alignment with NASA’s strategic priorities in hypersonics, advanced materials, remote sensing, and spacecraft instrumentation. Her acquisitions are primarily technical in nature, supporting the design, testing, and validation of next-generation aerospace systems and scientific instruments critical to atmospheric and planetary missions. Kopczynski maintains consistent working relationships with a select group of high-impact contractors, including Jackson Bond Enterprises, LLC for specialized engineering services, the University of Utah for applied research and prototype development, and Roche Diagnostics Corporation for advanced instrumentation and sensor technologies. These partnerships reflect a pattern of collaboration with both academic institutions and industry leaders capable of delivering high-fidelity R&D solutions under complex federal compliance frameworks. Her approach emphasizes technical rigor, performance-based outcomes, and long-term vendor engagement to meet mission-critical objectives. Her contracting activity reflects a strong preference for small business participation, with 42.9% of awards structured as total small business set-asides under FAR 19.5. While no other socioeconomic set-asides are predominant, her consistent use of small business set-asides demonstrates a deliberate commitment to fostering innovation through diverse, agile vendors. This pattern supports NASA’s broader goals of expanding the aerospace industrial base and enabling niche capabilities often found in small, specialized firms. Her procurement focus is exclusively centered on NAICS 541715—Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences—encompassing advanced materials testing, flight dynamics modeling, sensor system development, and environmental simulation technologies. She procures services and deliverables that directly feed into NASA’s aeronautics and space systems programs, ensuring technical excellence and mission readiness through targeted, science-driven acquisitions.