Richard L. Mann
Program Manager, Office of Small Business Programs
Mr. Mann joined the NASA HQ Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) as a Small Business Program Manager in March 2009. Currently, Mr. Mann is the Program Manager for OSBP’s Policy and Planning division. Among other activities, this entails oversight of the agency’s small business subcontracting program. He also has responsibility for small business prime and subcontracting goaling and metrics (FPDS-NG, sam.gov, and eSRS) and ensuring small business data accuracy. From 2003-2009, Mr. Mann worked in various roles at NASA John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, including Contracting Officer, Procurement Analyst, and Small Business Specialist. He has also been a Contracting Officer for the Defense Logistics Agency/Defense Energy Support Center and for the US Agency for International Development. Mr. Mann is a Certified Professional Contracts Manager (CPCM), has an MBA w/ a Concentration in Contracting from the Florida Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University.