Alka Bhave is the corporate Vice President of Performance Excellence at Perspecta. In this capacity, she has responsibility for leading an independent organization with mission to drive excellence into the performance of Perspecta programs, with scope across all lines of business and corporate functions. Perspecta is a differentiated technology solutions provider of over 14,500 employees, with mission-enabled end-to-end capabilities in technology modernization, systems engineering, advanced analytics, cyber, and enterprise IT across the U.S. Federal, state, and local spectrum. Alka has 23+ years of experience in program management, systems engineering & integration, and technical contribution to the development of complex space and ground systems mission and IT systems. She is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, SAFe Agilist and PMI PMP with extensive expertise in leading mission and business process transformation efforts for federal government agencies. Alka is a customer-recognized change agent and industry thought leader, architecting high impact initiatives for customers’ missions resulting in millions of dollars saved through innovative application of industry best practices. She continues to work to enable government agencies to increase to efficiency and accelerate value delivery in acquisition, development and sustainment efforts. Alka has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Telecommunications from the University of Maryland, College Park and was inducted into Tau Beta Pi, the National Engineering Honors Society. She serves as an advisory board member for the Missouri State University Customer Experience Program.