to Jessica Friz

Jessica Friz serves as a key procurement professional at NASA Langley Research Center, supporting the agency’s mission to advance aeronautics and space exploration through strategic acquisitions of cutting-edge technologies. She manages a diverse portfolio of contracts focused on aerospace R&D, including hypersonics, advanced materials, remote sensing systems, and spacecraft instrumentation. Her work directly enables the development of next-generation flight vehicles and planetary exploration platforms, ensuring that technical requirements are translated into effective, compliant contracting actions that align with NASA’s strategic priorities in engineering and physical sciences. Friz maintains consistent working relationships with high-impact contractors including Jackson Bond Enterprises, LLC, the University of Utah, and Roche Diagnostics Corporation, reflecting a blend of small business innovation, academic research collaboration, and industry-scale technical execution. These partnerships span prototype development, systems integration, and specialized instrumentation, demonstrating a preference for technically sophisticated vendors capable of delivering mission-critical solutions under stringent aerospace standards. Her procurement approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes and long-term technical support capabilities. Friz’s contracting activity shows a 100% non-set-aside profile, indicating a focus on full and open competition rather than socioeconomic set-asides. This pattern suggests a prioritization of technical merit, mission readiness, and access to specialized capabilities over socioeconomic preferences, consistent with NASA’s need for highly specialized, non-commoditized solutions in advanced aerospace domains. Her procurement focus centers on research and development services, engineering support, and advanced instrumentation, aligning with NAICS categories typical of federal aerospace R&D—such as scientific R&D services, aerospace product and parts manufacturing, and laboratory testing. She routinely sources complex, high-risk technologies requiring rigorous validation, underscoring deep expertise in NASA’s technical ecosystem and the unique demands of space and atmospheric flight systems.