Catherine Kuenzel

Vice President of Federal Mission Programs for the Civil Systems Division of Northrop Grumman’s Information Systems

Catherine Kuenzel is vice president of Federal Mission Programs for the Civil Systems Division of Northrop Grumman’s Information Systems sector. Federal Mission Programs is a premier provider of advanced IT solutions, engineering, and business services for primarily the Federal Civil, Postal and select Department of Defense civil clients.

Ms. Kuenzel is responsible for development, delivery, operations, and maintenance of secure networks, applications, and solutions for the enterprise systems that support the mission critical operations and services for Northrop Grumman’s Federal Civil Agency customers.  Her team provides application development, transformation and modernization, information management, and systems integration for a wide range of civil enterprise systems, including cyber security, air traffic management, human capital management, law enforcement, enterprise resource planning, document and records management, regulatory compliance and several information assurance programs.

Ms. Kuenzel’s prior assignment was vice president of Enterprise Infrastructure Services and Solutions within Northrop Grumman IT’s Defense Group.  Ms. Kuenzel led IT programs in IT outsourcing, infrastructure development, and operations support at the enterprise and base level.  Her operating unit provided system-of-system solutions for emergency management, integrated base defense, force protection, and homeland security – including the underlying technologies of information security supporting these solutions.  Her customers spanned the Department of Defense, in the U.S. and abroad.

Previously, Ms. Kuenzel served as the acting President of Northrop Grumman IT’s Computing Systems business unit and earlier as its Vice President of Field Operations. Ms. Kuenzel joined the company in 2002 as the Northrop Grumman IT TASC business unit’s Director of National Security Agency (NSA) Business Operations. In 2003, she became director of the business unit’s Cryptologic Systems Division, in addition to serving as the IT sector’s liaison for cross-sector endeavors supporting the NSA.

Prior to joining Northrop Grumman, Ms. Kuenzel was the area vice president of Oracle’s Advanced Programs Group. Before joining Oracle, she was the vice president for Lucent Technology's Advanced Program Group. Prior to her role at Oracle, she was with Digital Equipment Corporation/Compaq, where she held several roles over a 12 year period.

She is an executive sponsor for the African-American Task Group and sits on the Executive Diversity Council within Northrop Grumman’s Information Systems Sector.  She is also on the CEO Advisory Council for the ACT/Industry Advisory Council and AFCEA’s Board of Directors.

Ms. Kuenzel has a bachelor’s degree in business and management from the University of Maryland University College and completed technical, sales management and executive training programs at Darden School of Business and Harvard University.