Katie Thompson

Deputy Executive Director, U.S. Army Contracting Command–Aberdeen Proving Ground

U.S. Army

Ms. Katherine C. Thompson is the Deputy Executive Director of the U.S. Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG), Maryland, a major contracting center of the U.S. Army Contracting Command.

Prior to her selection as Deputy Director of ACC-APG, Ms. Thompson served as Chief of the Contracting Operations (CONOPS) Division at ACC-APG. In CONOPS Ms. Thompson and her team supported thirteen buying divisions, staff, and the Senior Contracting Official through policy initiatives, engagements, training compliance, audit support, cost and price initiatives, contract administration, and competition advocacy.

Ms. Thompson previously served as the Chief of the Contracting Office (COCO) providing contracting support to the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center, the DoD Office of Small Business Programs APEX Accelerators and Mentor Protégé Programs, and the Communications and Electronics
Command, National Security Engineering Center, Federally Funded Research and Development Center with MITRE Corporation.

Ms. Thompson was also the Branch Chief and Lead Contracting Officer executing the $37B Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services (RS3) contract, providing customized best value contracting solutions to a diverse group of organizations across the DoD and federal government that require professional support services across the spectrum of C5ISR mission requirements.

Ms. Thompson holds a Master of Science in Business Management specializing in Acquisition and Supply Chain Management from the University of Maryland University College, and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Political Science from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

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U.S. Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG) is a geographically dispersed contracting center responsible for enabling Army readiness by supporting Army wide research and development efforts and mission critical contracting for program executive offices, institutional Army customers, and the warfighter. It is authorized over 900 personnel at seven (7) locations in Arizona, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. ACC-APG executes more than 32,000 contracting actions annually, valued at more than $20 billion. ACC is a major subordinate command of U.S. Army Materiel Command.

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