Audrey Montgomery
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Audrey Montgomery
Audrey Montgomery stands out as one of the people helping hold the mission together where policy, procurement, engineering support, and long-horizon operational planning all meet.
Featured Bio
Leading acquisition work behind some of NASA's hardest operational problems.
Based on the procurement record summary provided for this site, Audrey Montgomery serves as a Senior Contracting Officer and Procurement Team Lead within the International Space Station Procurement Office at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston.
That is not background paperwork. It is mission-shaping work. Her portfolio touches station operations, commercial transition strategy, major engineering support vehicles, and research awards that help low Earth orbit become a place where science and manufacturing can keep advancing.
"Some NASA careers are visible on the pad. Others make the pad, the program, and the future possible. Audrey Montgomery's work belongs in that second category, and it matters enormously."
Audrey Montgomery SpotlightAccomplishments
A record of stewardship, scale, and trust.
The data paints a picture of a procurement leader trusted with complicated programs that affect both the current life of the ISS and what comes after it.
Guiding the ISS transition
Audrey Montgomery leads procurement work at NASA Johnson Space Center right where the International Space Station's present operations and post-ISS transition strategies meet.
United States Deorbit Vehicle award
She served as the contracting officer on the United States Deorbit Vehicle award to SpaceX, an approximately $843.3 million procurement tied to the safe retirement of the ISS.
REMIS2 leadership
She leads contracting work connected to REMIS2, a multiple-award vehicle with a potential ceiling of $478 million supporting spaceflight hardware, sustaining engineering, payload integration, and research operations.
Commercial research in low Earth orbit
Her portfolio reaches beyond major infrastructure into life science and manufacturing awards that help turn the ISS into a platform for commercially useful research.
Lunar and future exploration planning
The records also connect her office to early forecast and acquisition planning around the Lunar Terrain Vehicle, showing that her work stretches from ISS operations toward future exploration capability.
Precision under pressure
The contracts in her orbit are not small or symbolic. They are high-stakes, technically demanding programs where procurement discipline has to match the seriousness of the mission.
By the Numbers
Real programs, real dollars, real responsibility.
These figures come from the procurement summary you provided and help show the scale of the programs under her contracting and acquisition leadership.
$843.3M
United States Deorbit VehicleAward finalized June 26, 2024 for the spacecraft that will help guide the ISS to a controlled end-of-life reentry.
$478M
REMIS2 ceilingMajor support vehicle for engineering services, payload integration, research mission operations, and flight hardware support.
$15M
BioServe life science platformSupports continuous on-orbit research capability and mission integration for life science payloads in low Earth orbit.
$2.9M
Single Crystal Diamond awardMicrogravity manufacturing work focused on highly uniform diamond materials for advanced semiconductor and microchip applications.
Programs in View
Some of the mission hardware and concepts connected to her work.
Procurement leadership can feel abstract until you connect it to the actual vehicles, systems, and exploration plans those contracts help bring into being.
United States Deorbit Vehicle concept
A visual concept for the SpaceX vehicle tied to the ISS end-of-life mission, one of the most significant procurements in Audrey Montgomery's portfolio.
Lunar Terrain Vehicle concept
A concept rover image representing the Lunar Terrain Vehicle planning work connected to future surface exploration logistics in Audrey Montgomery's forecast portfolio.
Why Her Work Matters
The mission does not move forward on hardware alone.
NASA needs people who can organize complexity, protect public trust, negotiate responsibly, and keep giant programs aligned with mission reality.
That is worthy of praise. It takes judgment, patience, technical understanding, and the ability to carry enormous responsibility without seeking the spotlight.
- Mission success depends on people who can translate technical goals into executable, accountable contracts.
- Procurement leaders help shape what gets built, who builds it, how risks are managed, and how timelines hold together.
- NASA needs mathematicians, business leaders, contracting officers, policy thinkers, and program stewards alongside scientists and engineers.
- Audrey Montgomery's career is a reminder that some of the most important people in spaceflight are the ones who make complex missions possible behind the scenes.
Career Arc
A procurement path that kept expanding with the mission.
The portfolio history in your PDF shows a progression from support contracts and task orders into major infrastructure, scientific research, and future-facing mission systems.
- Supported and helped administer the JOIST contract family during a major ISS operational period.
- Helped manage smaller engineering, logistics, and research task orders across Johnson Space Center.
- Led industry-facing coordination for REMIS2, including pre-proposal and industry-day engagement.
- Finalized the USDV award that will shape the controlled retirement phase of the ISS.
- Oversaw research and in-space production awards spanning life science platforms, tissue engineering, and advanced materials.