Stephanie M. VanDine

Stephanie M. VanDine serves as a key procurement professional within the FA8823 Sustainment MCPNT SSC/PKL under the Department of the Air Force, where she supports the sustainment and modernization of critical aerospace and space-based systems essential to national defense. Her responsibilities include managing complex acquisitions for technical services that ensure the operational readiness of guided missile systems, satellite communications networks, and global positioning infrastructure. She oversees contract lifecycle activities for mission-critical capabilities, focusing on engineering support, systems integration, and mission assurance services that directly enable space and missile sustainment operations. VanDine collaborates with a diverse array of professional services contractors specializing in systems engineering, satellite telecommunications, and custom software development. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for experienced technical service providers with deep domain expertise in aerospace sustainment, including firms offering command and control system modernization, satellite payload support, and mission-critical data analytics. She maintains a results-driven relationship model grounded in performance-based contracting and outcome-oriented deliverables, ensuring alignment with Air Force readiness objectives. Her procurement portfolio is entirely non-set-aside, reflecting a strategic focus on technical capability over socioeconomic classifications. While she does not prioritize 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides, her approach ensures that competition remains open and performance-driven, selecting vendors based on technical merit, past performance, and mission-specific expertise. VanDine’s primary NAICS focus areas include administrative and general management consulting, custom computer programming, satellite telecommunications, and other scientific and technical consulting services. She routinely procures high-impact services such as systems architecture design, embedded software development, satellite ground segment support, and mission assurance analytics—domains requiring deep technical proficiency in space systems sustainment and secure communications infrastructure.