Paul Siegrist

Vice President, Business Development and Strategy

Leidos

Paul joined Leidos in December 2021 as Vice President for Maritime Strategy and Business Development. His 27 years of active duty in nuclear
submarines included attack boats and command of a nuclear ballistic missile submarine. Shore assignments were in intelligence, budgeting, requirements, acquisition, congressional liaison, and major program management. Following active duty, he served as a Navy senior civilian for five years as Deputy Director of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Capabilities on the Chief of Naval Operations (N2N6) staff, managing $10B in Navy’s Fiscal Year Defense Plan funding Navy’s manned and unmanned ISR assets from seabed to edge of space. Leaving government service in 2015, he joined Raytheon Intelligence as the CEO’s Special Assistant for Undersea Initiatives as a Senior Program Manager, followed by five years at Boeing Defense capturing Navy’s $274M Orca XLUUV Program. He subsequently served as Director of Business Development for Boeing Defense’s Maritime Undersea Business unit. In Leidos, Paul’s portion of the Defense Sector portfolio includes business development and strategy encompassing the Maritime Systems Division maritime sensors, unmanned maritime surface and subsurface systems, hardware and software naval C4ISR and ship control systems, simulation and synthetic training systems supporting naval forces, as well as civilian maritime opportunities in energy and advanced technology areas. He is also responsible for business development and strategy within the Gibbs & Cox subsidiary, which is the largest independent naval architecture and marine engineering firm in the United States with government and civil customers in the U.S. and around the globe. Paul is a Distinguished Graduate of both the United States Naval Academy (bachelor’s degree) and the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (Master’s in Scientific and Technical Intelligence), as well as a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Mechanical Engineering Department Submarine Design Course. He is certified in Defense Acquisition Program Management (Level III) having served as a DoD Major Defense Program Manager. He has attended in-residence professional education at University of Virginia's Darden Business School and University of North Carolina's Keenan-Flagler Business School. His published articles have addressed U.S. and Soviet/Russian submarine and Unmanned Undersea Vehicle issues in the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Submarine Review, and Jane’s Soviet Intelligence Review. He formerly served on the Board of Directors for the Bob Feller Act of Valor Foundation.

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