Federal 100: J. Lisa Romney
Name: J. Lisa Romney
Title: Senior Procurement Analyst, Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy
Agency: Defense Department
The standard-setter. Romney is the acquisition professional's acquisition professional. In her 26-year career, she has worked on everything from Air Force F-16 contracts to the governmentwide Integrated Acquisition Environment. She won her first Federal 100 in 2005 for her leadership on DOD's contributions to IAE and was an early advocate of web services. In 2015, Romney again dug into a critical governmentwide initiative: hammering out the standards and data element definitions that agencies need to make the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act a workable reality.
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