Ms. Ramona Watts-Sutton currently serves as Founder and President of Summit Advisory Solutions, LLC. She was formerly a member of the Senior Executive Service, previously serving as the Head of Contracting Activity, Managing Director for the Acquisition Management Directorate, and Deputy Senior Procurement Executive, Bureau of Global Acquisition for the Department of State, leading global procurement operations and directing an annual portfolio of $13.5 billion.
A seasoned acquisition professional with over 25 years of experience, she was formerly Director, Mission and Installation Contracting Command, Ft. Belvoir, Army Contracting Command, where she managed contracting for goods and services in support of Soldiers; provided leadership to and partnered with more than 200 separate Army and joint organizations to include five separate garrison commands, Military District of Washington (MDW)-Joint Task Force Headquarters and Arlington National Cemetery. She previously served as the Chief of the Contracting Office (COCO) for the Procurement Directorate, Office of Acquisition, U. S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) Department of Homeland Security, where she managed the day-to-day contract operations of the agency’s $6B acquisition portfolio. Ms. Watts-Sutton was born in Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, attending E.E. Smith Senior High School, Fayetteville, North Carolina; graduating from Fayetteville State University as Valedictorian, Summa Cum Laude and earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology. She received a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Organizational Leadership from the University of Baltimore.
Ms. Watts-Sutton began her civil service career as a contracting intern with the Department of Navy (DON) Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). During her tenure there, she served in positions of increasing responsibility from Contract Specialist to Procuring Contracting Officer (PCO) supporting the Naval Air Warfare Center – Aircraft Division’s (NAWC-AD) Contracted Support Services Department, and NAVAIR’s Air, Anti-Submarine Warfare, Assault and Special Mission Contracts Department supporting various Aviation programs including the Marine Corps’ AV-8B Harrier Program, the H-1 Utility/Attack Helicopter Programs, MH-60 platforms, and the V-22 Osprey Program. She is a graduate of the NAVAIR Leadership Development Program, additionally earning a certification as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Upon leaving NAVAIR, Ms. Watts-Sutton served as the Division Head, Guidance/Test Instrumentation/Systems Group, Strategic Systems Programs (SSP), Department of the Navy (DON). As the Supervisory Contracting Officer, she was responsible for highly specialized acquisitions of national significance in support of the Navy’s Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) weapon system.
Prior to her role at CBP, Ms. Watts-Sutton served as the Division Chief, Aviation and C4ISR Systems Contracts Division for the U.S. Coast Guard Acquisition Directorate, where she managed the $30B portfolio of recapitalization Aviation projects and the $5B portfolio for C4ISR projects.
