Krista Sweet

Vice President, Civilian Agencies
      

Krista Sweet has spent more than twenty years working at the intersection of law, policy, business, and government. She is currently the Vice President of Civilian Agencies for the Professional Services Council where she leads member advocacy, programs, and acquisition policy reform with federal civilian agencies, with emphasis on DHS, HHS, VA, DOE, and NASA.  

Sweet has significant experience designing and planning programs that bring government and industry together to address business, acquisition, and mission challenges. She has developed and coordinated federal acquisition training programs, role play exercises, workshops, and market research sessions for various federal agencies, including DHS, FDA, CMS, NIH, DOE, NASA, EPA, DoD, GSA, IRS, FAA, and the State Department. She led the development of an Executive Tour program that brought industry to homeland security and law enforcement operations across US land, sea, and air borders to help them better understand the mission environment and technology needs of DHS and the FBI.

Prior to joining PSC in 2021, Sweet spent ten years as the Director of Policy at the Homeland Security & Defense Business Council. From 2007-2011, she worked at the Maryland Emergency Management Agency (now the Maryland Department of Emergency Management) where she led the Governor’s Emergency Management Advisory Council and advised elected and appointed senior officials across the National Capital Region on strategy, compliance, and investment decisions for more than $500 million in federal homeland security grant funds. From 2005 – 2007, Sweet was a staff attorney at the Center for Health and Homeland Security. During this time, she served as an instructor at a NATO Security through Science program on "Strengthening Public Health Preparedness for Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Threats" in Macedonia.  Previously, she spent three years in private legal practice at a Baltimore civil litigation firm. She received her JD and certificate in health law from the University of Maryland School of Law and her BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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