SAIC’s Barbara Supplee Wins 2026 Wash100 Award for Advancing Naval Readiness & Innovation
Executive Mosaic is honored to name Barbara Supplee, executive vice president of SAIC’s Army Navy Business Group, a 2026 Wash100 Award winner. Supplee’s first Wash100 win recognizes her leadership in advancing naval mission readiness, undersea warfare technologies innovation and next-generation training technologies supporting the U.S. military.
The Wash100 Award celebrates influential leaders in government and the government contracting industry whose vision and achievements shape federal missions and strengthen collaboration between government and industry.
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Why Is Barbara Supplee Winning the Wash100 Award?
Supplee is being honored for driving innovation across naval modernization programs while expanding SAIC’s role in delivering training, testing and emerging technologies that support maritime and joint force readiness.
Her leadership has helped position SAIC as a defense partner for advanced training environments, undersea warfare capabilities and digital engineering solutions that strengthen the U.S. military’s ability to operate in contested environments.
“Barbara’s extensive resume of success with some of GovCon’s largest integrators made her an exemplary choice for her first Wash100 Award. She quickly worked up the ranks to executive positions at CACI, GDIT and SAIC, where she now leads one of SAIC’s highest-profile divisions,” Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 award, stated.
“Barbara’s time in Navy intelligence and at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency means she knows exactly where technology meets the mission. Whether it’s securing impressive contracts for core naval technologies or collaborating with rising firms for paradigm-shifting technologies, Barbara has defined herself as an essential force in GovCon,” Garrettson added.
Supporting Navy Readiness Through Training & Modernization
In August 2025, SAIC secured a $202 million contract to continue providing training products and services under the U.S. Navy Fleet Deployment Training Program.
Under the contract, the company is providing live, virtual and constructive environments to support the training of fleet commands and operational units ahead of deployment. The program offers academic instruction, mission rehearsal exercises and integrated training scenarios designed to enhance operational readiness of 19 headquarters and training commands.
“Our team is extremely proud to continue this decades-long, dedicated support for the U.S. Navy to advance their operational readiness,” Supplee said when the contract was announced. She added that the program plays a key role in ensuring naval forces are prepared to execute missions assigned by geographic combatant commanders worldwide.
In November, SAIC received a $242 million follow-on contract from the U.S. Navy for the continued operation, maintenance and upgrade of the service’s Propulsion Test Facility in Newport, Rhode Island. SAIC provides engineering, systems integration, prototyping and sustainment services and supports test-set production and modernization efforts tied to the Mk 48 and Mk 54 torpedo programs, unmanned underwater vehicles and submarine sensor systems.
The Propulsion Test Facility is the Navy’s principal land-based complex for undersea weapons propulsion testing.
Advancing Undersea Warfare & Naval Innovation
Supplee is a strong proponent for the deployment of emerging technologies, particularly unmanned underwater vehicles, to maintain the Navy’s undersea advantage against adversaries.
In a Defense Daily commentary, she shared that the collaborative UUV that SAIC is developing can operate as an integrated layer within the service branch’s undersea warfare architecture. The company’s multimission intelligent system can enable UUV autonomous maneuvers to carry out surveillance missions and deliver undersea decoy and diversion capabilities.
She added that industry partnerships with startups, academic institutions and defense innovators are critical to accelerating the development of such capabilities and ensuring the Navy can rapidly integrate emerging technologies into operational environments.
Expanding Maritime Autonomy & CJADC2 Integration
Supplee has also overseen initiatives on integrating autonomous systems into naval command-and-control architectures.
In November 2025, SAIC partnered with HavocAI to combine its Joint Range Extension, or JRE, communications backbone with autonomous maritime platform technology. The collaboration could enable fleets of autonomous vessels to operate as part of a distributed network of sensors and shooters, improving maritime domain awareness and accelerating decision-making in contested environments.
“The ability to seamlessly integrate dozens of autonomous vessels into our C2 architecture will provide warfighters with an unprecedented level of maritime domain awareness, sea denial and sea control,” Supplee explained about SAIC’s and HavocAI’s combined capabilities.
The effort is intended to integrate unmanned vessels into the Navy’s command and control environment and support the Department of War’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or CJADC2, vision.
Leading SAIC’s Army Navy Business Group
Supplee’s leadership responsibilities expanded in November when SAIC announced a companywide organizational realignment.
Under the new structure, the company consolidated its operations into three business groups, including the Army Navy Business Group, which Supplee now leads. The business group combines SAIC’s Army and Navy portfolios and focuses on delivering engineering, digital transformation, artificial intelligence and mission solutions supporting the military services.
Cast your vote for Supplee in the 2026 Wash100 Award popular vote competition happening now at Wash100.com!
Who Is Barbara Supplee?
As executive vice president of SAIC’s Army Navy Business Group, Supplee leads strategy, business development and program execution for solutions supporting the U.S. Army, Navy and Marine Corps.
She joined SAIC in 2023 after serving as vice president and general manager of General Dynamics Information Technology’s Navy and Marine Corps division, where she oversaw programs involving cloud computing, digital engineering, artificial intelligence, training systems and logistics support.
Her private sector career also includes leadership roles at CACI International and BAE Systems.
She also served as chief of doctrine and as a chief collection officer at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and as a U.S. Navy intelligence specialist earlier in her career.
Supplee holds a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems from Park University.
What Is SAIC?
SAIC is a technology integrator headquartered in Reston, Virginia. The company delivers engineering, mission and enterprise IT, and digital transformation services to defense, intelligence, space and civilian government customers.
In December, the company posted $1.87 billion in revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2026 and approximately $23.8 billion in total backlog.
Executive Mosaic congratulates Supplee for her first Wash100 win.
The 2026 Wash100 popular vote is now open. Cast your vote for Supplee today at Wash100.com!