Matice Wright-Springer is a senior leader in Booz Allen's aerospace business where she leads our nuclear deterrence and nuclear modernization practice. With a focus on digital transformation, data solutions, and systems integration, Matice collaborates across the firm to enhance military readiness. Matice leads solutions for operational effectiveness that occur at the intersection of mission and technology.
As a key leader supporting our Department of Defense (DOD) clients, Matice combines her former operational experience as a naval flight officer, policy expertise as a former DOD senior executive, and several decades of business leadership to drive change and solve complex national security challenges.
She began her career in 1988, serving as the nation’s first African-American, female naval flight officer. She logged thousands of flight hours in both the EC-130 and the E-6 aircraft. After serving in the Navy, she was presidentially appointed to serve as a White House fellow at the Department of Treasury. She returned to government service a few years later as a member of the Senior Executive Service at the Department of Defense.
Matice’s private sector experience includes work as a defense analyst on large IT programs with General Dynamics, a foreign military sales helicopter manager with Lockheed Martin, a senior strategist with L3 Harris, and as a technical director with ManTech International Corporation.
She currently serves on the United States Naval Academy’s Alumni Association’s board, as the Chair, Youth Education for the National Space Club and Foundation, and as an advisor for the National Medal of Honor Leadership Center.
Matice earned a B.S. in physical sciences and general engineering from the United States Naval Academy. She holds an M.P.A. from Harvard University and an M.B.A. with a finance concentration from Johns Hopkins University.
