James Bailey is the Acting Procurement Officer of NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) and Stennis Space Center (SSC) located in Hancock County, Mississippi. In this role, Mr. Bailey’s primary duties include managing a workforce of over 40 Civil Servants and an acquisition portfolio encompassing over 17K contract actions with obligations more than $1.6 billion annually in support of numerous missions across 10 NASA Centers. Previously, he served as the Deputy Procurement Officer of NSSC and Stennis.Mr. Bailey began his career at NASA at Marshall Space Flight Center as a co-op student while attending Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University. After graduation, he accepted a permanent position and has worked to build his brand as a problem solver, a consummate professional and leader who gets the job done. Since then, he has held leadership roles at five (5) NASA Installations, including Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where he led the Center’s Institutional contracts division and Engineering contracts divisions, at NASA-Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he led the award of the first suite of contract awards to support the Nations Vision for Space Exploration under the Space Exploration Concept Exploration and Refinement Broad Agency Announceme …
