Vicki Schmanske

Vicki Schmanske serves as President of the Leidos Commercial & International Sector, a 7,200-employee business, where she is responsible for providing services and solutions globally in energy, enterprise logistics, C4ISR, digital transformation, mission software and security products and services to government and commercial customers.

Previously, Schmanske was the Leidos Chief Corporate Operations Officer where she led operational performance and strategic functional initiatives across the enterprise. Schmanske is an accomplished executive who, throughout her 40-year career, has successfully held roles of increasing responsibility at Leidos and Lockheed Martin across intelligence, defense, civil and health markets. Prior roles at Leidos include President of the Intelligence Group; Chief Administrative Officer; Deputy President and Chief Operations Officer for the Health Group in addition to various leadership roles in the Lockheed Martin IS&GS organization.

Schmanske’s experience includes program and portfolio management, systems engineering, software and information systems development, enterprise IT services and corporate operations. She has led teams for complex, critical national missions including building satellite ground systems for the defense and intelligence community, implementing enterprise IT solutions and services for defense and civil agencies, and providing healthcare and life science solutions to federal and commercial customers. In 2018, Schmanske received the Corporate Large Market Sector leadership award from Women in Technology. In 2020, she received the Women of Excellence C-Suite Executive of the Year award from the National Association for Female Executives. In 2022, she was recognized by Washington Business Journal as one of 25 Women Who Mean Business.

Schmanske has a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics/computer science from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree in information systems from George Washington University. An active member of the community, she serves on the Executive Leadership Team of the Washington D.C. Heart Walk and is a board member of The Women’s Center. In addition, she is a pro-tempore advisor of the University of Virginia Engineering Foundation board of directors, serves on the the UVA School of Data Science Advisory Board, and is the Leidos Corporate Executive for the University of Virginia. In 2023 she was elected to the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine.

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