Claire Grady is ManTech’s Senior Vice President of Strategy.

In this role, Ms. Grady is responsible for guiding the development and execution of ManTech’s corporate strategy to deliver exceptional results and outcomes for our clients and our people.

She came to ManTech through the acquisition of Gryphon Technologies, where she was the chief operating officer, delivering digital transformation, model-based system engineering and high end engineering solutions. This followed a nearly 30-year federal career in the national security space spanning multiple departments and agencies, culminating in her service as the Under Secretary for Management and as the acting Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). During her tenure at DHS, she aligned and deployed 240,000+ Departmental personnel and more than $100B, and engaged international, interagency, state, local and tribal partners to deliver maximum effect during a period of unprecedented national security challenges.

She previously served as the Director of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy (the predecessor to DPC) at the Department of Defense, where she led a workforce of 30,000 procurement professionals executing $300B annually, spearheaded the Department’s strategic approach to services acquisition, and developed and implemented the department’s contingency, domestic, and international contract policy.  In this capacity, she also provided strategic business input on all DoD major acquisitions and collaborated with Congress and OMB on acquisition related legislation.

Ms. Grady began her career as an acquisition career intern and advanced through positions of increasing responsibility at the Naval Sea Systems Command, DHS, and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Ms. Grady holds master’s degrees in national security strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (now the Eisenhower School) and in business administration from the University of Maryland and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Trinity University.