Richmond, Virginia - 10th Annual B2G Procurement Conference & Expo

Wednesday Evening

Banquet with the MICC

7:30pm -10pm Doors open at 6:30pm

for networking with refresments & cash bar

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

"Contracting with the U.S. Army

Mission & Contracting Command"

Latosha McCoy

Director

U.S. Army Contracting Command 

Mission and Installation Contracting Command (MICC)

Fort Eustis, Virginia

Latosha McCoy comes to the MICC from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Center at Huntsville, Alabama, where she served as the chief of its operational technology branch. Her MICC experience includes serving as the senior team lead and contracting officer of installation services for MICC-Fort Rucker, Alabama.

In her most previous position with USACE, she was responsible for advising and training acquisition personnel, customers and other key stakeholders in all phases of the acquisition process as well as played an integral role in the award of more than $3 billion in contracts annually.

She has also served as the special acquisition division chief for the 409th Contracting Support Brigade’s Theater Contracting Centerin Kaiserslautern, Germany, and has deployed in support of the Joint Contracting Command-Iraq/Afghanistan to Baghdad.

Her 20-plus years of contracting experience includes multiple contracting and leadership roles for the U.S. Air Force,

Defense Contract Management Agency and Army Expeditionary Contracting Command.

She also aims to leverage that experience in guiding the contracting and support professionals making up four divisions in the contracting office

during not only a pandemic but also a challenging acquisition environment. MICC-Fort Eustis awarded more than

900 contract actions in fiscal 2021 valued at more than $348 million, which included multi-million awards in support of the Army Futures Command Future Concepts Center, Training and Doctrine Command Enterprise Classroom Program and Installation Management Command job order contract at Fort Benning, Georgia.

As an Army Acquisition Corps member, McCoy holds a Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act Level III certification in contracting and Level I certification in program management. She possesses a Master of Business Administration from Columbia

College and is a doctoral candidate at Cappella University.

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Thursday Morning

Breakfast with HII

7:30am-10:00am

Thursday, March 28, 2024

"Contracting with

Huntington Ingalls Industries"

Sondra N. Roescher, MBA

Small Business Contract Manager

Newport News Shipbuilding

A Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries

HII is a global engineering and defense technologies provider and is recognized worldwide as America’s largest shipbuilder.

With a 135-year history of trusted partnerships in advancing U.S. national security, HII delivers critical capabilities ranging from the most powerful and survivable naval ships ever built, to unmanned systems, ISR and AI/ML analytics.

HII leads the industry in mission-driven solutions

that support and enable an all-domain force.

Newport News Shipbuilding is the sole designer, builder

and refueler of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and one of two providers of U.S. Navy submarines.

With approximately $4 billion in revenues and more than 25,000 employees, they are the largest industrial employer

in Virginia and the largest shipbuilding company

in the United States.

NNS builds the most advanced ships in the world

using their expertise in nuclear propulsion, naval design

and manufacturing.

They are currently building the new Ford-class aircraft carriers and Virginia-class fast-attack submarines, and performing Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH) on Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. They provide fleet services for their ships worldwide.

Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co.

in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more than

800 ships, including both naval and commercial ships.

Located in Newport News, Virginia, the facilities

span more than 550 acres, and is strategically positioned

in one of the great harbors of the East Coast.

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Small Business

Procurement Luncheon

Noon-1:30pm Thursday, March 28 2024

Small Business &

Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)

Stacey L. Cooper

Deputy

 Small Business Programs

Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)

Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) 

OUR MISSION

We design, build, deliver and maintain ships, submarines and systems reliably, on-time and on-cost for the United States Navy.

EXPAND THE ADVANTAGE

For as long as we’ve been a Nation, our Navy has played a key role in protecting the world’s maritime system. Today, traditional and non-traditional forces threaten our safety both at home and abroad. Our technical and tactical advantage over our adversaries is being challenged as technology advances at a rapid pace. Every campaign requires a clearly stated and shared objective and vision. The overarching objective and vision of the NAVSEA Campaign is to expand the U.S. Navy’s maritime advantage over our adversaries through our people, products, and services.

ABOUT NAVSEA

The Naval Sea Systems Command is comprised of command staff, headquarters directorates, affiliated Program Executive Offices (PEOs) and numerous field activities. Together, we engineer, build, buy and maintain ships, submarines and combat systems that meet

the Fleet's current and future operational requirements.

Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) is the largest

of the Navy's six system commands. With a fiscal year budget of approximately $36 billion, NAVSEA accounts

for nearly one quarter of the Navy's entire budget.

With a force of 86,600 (as of 1 Aug 2022) civilian

and military personnel, NAVSEA engineers, builds,

buys and maintains the Navy's ships and submarines

and their combat systems.

To accomplish this, NAVSEA manages 150 acquisition programs and manages foreign military sales cases

that include billions of dollars in annual military sales

to partner nations.

The origin of NAVSEA dates to 1794, when Commodore John Barry was charged to oversee the construction

of a 44-gun frigate and ensure that all business

"harmonized and conformed" to the public's interest.

Today, the NAVSEA organization has 42 activities.

NAVSEA strives to be an efficient provider of defense resources for the nation, and it plays an important role

in the Navy Enterprise. As a Provider Command,

it has the responsibility of directing resource sponsors

into the proper mix of manpower and resources

to properly equip the fleet.

NAVSEA has the further responsibility of establishing

and enforcing technical authority in combat system design and operation. These technical standards use the organization's technical expertise to ensure systems

are engineered effectively, and that they operate safely

and reliably.