Nancy Deskins

Nancy H. Deskins serves as Director for Supplier Diversity of Lockheed Martin.  As the corporation’s primary advocate for supplier diversity, Ms. Deskins is responsible for establishing corporate policy, goals, and objectives to maximize Lockheed Martin’s utilization of small businesses through subcontracting and partnering initiatives. This role focuses on internal corporate initiatives as well as outreach efforts associated with small and minority businesses organizations, political contacts, and government entities.

Ms. Deskins is responsible for all categories of supplier diversity, which includes small disadvantaged business concerns, women-owned small business concerns, historically black colleges and universities and minority institutions, HUBZone small business concerns, veteran-owned small business concerns, and service-disabled veteran-owned small business concerns.

Ms. Deskins has held a variety of increasingly responsible positions with the Corporation, including Senior Manager, Systems & Services, Corporate Internal Audit and Electronic Systems’ Senior Manager, Ethics, Compliance and Supplier Diversity throughout a career that has included experience in diversity, ethics, procurement, and quality.

Ms. Deskins holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Liberal Studies: Political Science and Public Administration, from West Chester University of Pennsylvania.  Ms. Deskins, her husband David and son D.J. reside in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.

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