Steven Christie

Steven Christe serves as a key procurement lead at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, supporting the design, integration, and deployment of advanced space systems and scientific instrumentation. He manages complex acquisitions for guided missile and space vehicle components, ensuring alignment with NASA’s mission to advance Earth observation, deep-space communications, and planetary exploration. His work spans the full lifecycle of space system procurements—from requirements definition and source selection to contract execution—focusing on high-reliability, mission-critical hardware and subsystems that meet stringent aerospace performance standards. Christe plays a central role in translating scientific objectives into actionable contracting strategies that enable mission success. His primary contractor relationships include Aerospace & Commercial Technologies, LLC, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory, reflecting a blend of specialized defense and aerospace contractors with leading academic research institutions. These partnerships are typically structured around cost-reimbursement and fixed-price incentive contracts for R&D, prototyping, and production of space-qualified components. Christe consistently engages vendors with proven expertise in radiation-hardened electronics, precision guidance systems, and high-bandwidth space communications, fostering long-term technical collaboration over transactional procurement. Christe’s procurement portfolio reflects a 100% non-set-aside approach, indicating a focus on technical capability and mission readiness over socioeconomic classifications. While small business participation is not formally prioritized in his award patterns, his contracting decisions are driven by the need for specialized, mission-critical capabilities that are often available only through established aerospace prime contractors and research labs with Tier-1 space heritage. His primary NAICS classification is 336419, reflecting exclusive focus on other guided missile and space vehicle parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing. He procures advanced subsystems including flight avionics, attitude control mechanisms, thermal management units, and space-rated data interfaces—domains requiring deep expertise in aerospace engineering, systems integration, and compliance with NASA’s NPR 7150.2 and ECSS standards.