Gregory A. Garrett and Gail A. Parrott
Gregory A. Garrett is the Managing Director and Practice Leader of the Government Contract Services practice within Navigant Consulting, Inc., located in the Vienna, Virginia office. He is an internationally recognized expert in government contracting, cost estimating, contract pricing, proposal/capture management, and project management. He is also a best-selling author of 16 books and 90+ published articles, highly acclaimed speaker, and, during the past 25+ years, he has managed more than $30 Billion of large complex contracts and projects in both the U.S. government and industry. He has taught and consulted with more than 25,000 professionals in 40+ countries. He is the recipient of numerous national and international business awards for his writing, teaching, consulting, and leadership.
Gail A. Parrott currently serves as the contract management team focal point for the Boeing Company's Integrated Defense System (IDS) Program. Previously, she served as the eBusiness Site Leader of The Boeing Company's Integrated Defense System (IDS) for St. Louis. She led the site's Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Wide Area Workflow (WAWF) teams, and served as the contract management team focal point for Unique Item Identification (UID) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) programs. She also led a Web Services team, which developed a new system providing authorized Boeing users the autonomy to access at any time their related data from the government system called Mechanization of Contract Administration Services (MOCAS). In 1997, Ms. Parrott joined McDonnell Douglas, which has since become a subsidiary of The Boeing Company. She has served in numerous accounting and financial management positions supporting various major aircraft programs, including: F/A-18, AV-8, and the Aircraft Spares programs. As the eBusiness Leader for the St. Louis site, Ms. Parrott has traveled amongst the many sites within the United States, as well as abroad to Europe presenting to the Ministry of Defense and BAE Systems. Ms. Parrott holds a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Illinois and a MBA from Fontbonne University in St. Louis, Missouri. She is currently pursuing her Certified Commercial Contract Management (CCCM) certification. She resides in St. Louis, Missouri.