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Expertise
Information technology/cyber systems, global operations and logistics, leader development, problem solving, strategic planning, organizational change, government procurement, and program management. 

Experience
MG Price entered the Army in 1975 as a Private First Class when 2% of the Army workforce was female and retired over 38 years later as a Major General. Upon her retirement in 2014, only 7 women had gone further in the Army. During her almost four decades of service, she supported our Nation’s operators across the globe in multiple combat zones and left a legacy of delivering groundbreaking technologies to U.S. Forces. 

In her last assignment as one of the Army’s eleven Program Executive Officers, she executed the Army’s second largest portfolio that encompassed its #1 modernization program to upgrade its mobile communications capability and networked computer applications – those used in hostile environments. Additionally, MG Price was charged with managing 9 of the Army’s 27 major programs with an annual budget that topped $6 billion. General Price executed these efforts with a workforce of 2000. To support the Presidential goal for the United States to share information with our Coalition partners in Afghanistan, she was asked to quickly adapt the US Forces system. Her team flawlessly delivered this system and their efforts, especially for the generated cost-savings through reusing equipment, were the Army’s sole recipient of the Department of Defense esteemed Packard Award for Acquisition Excellence. This system, known as CX-I (CENTRIX-ISAF), has forever changed the landscape in information sharing with partner nations. While maintaining 24x7 operations in support of deployed forces, she met Congressionally mandated timelines to seamlessly relocate 1500 of her workforce from Fort Monmouth, NJ to Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. 

Earlier in her career, MG Price delivered a vast array of commercial communications to US Forces and the US State Department in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait and Qatar. She also served as the Deputy Acquisition Executive for the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) at a time of unprecedented growth acquiring gear for the SEALs, Rangers, and the Marine and Air Force Special Operators. 

Scholarly Work/Publications/Awards
MG Price has been awarded numerous military awards to include the Army Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star, and the Combat Action Badge. She was inducted into the Alabama Business and Professional Women’s Foundation Academy of Honor in 2009. Notable “firsts” include the first (and to date, only) woman selected for General Officer while serving in Special Operation Command (2008), the first female promoted to General Officer for the Army’s Acquisition Corps (2008), and the first woman to serve as an Army Program Executive Officer (2009). In 2014, she was named the Distinguished Alumna for the University of Alabama at Birmingham. 

Education
MS, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
MS, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Washington, D.C.
BS, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, AL
MS, University of Alabama, Organizational Leadership; expected 2019, Tuscaloosa, AL 

Organizations
Director, Board of Directors, Southern Research Institute Director, Lakeshore Foundation