Heidi Grant

Heidi Grant is a highly effective business leader with expertise in defense, aerospace, and economic security as well as business transformation and security sales and services. She has extensive experience and excels at developing global strategy, competitive positioning, and generating revenue. Throughout her career, Grant has been respected for her ability to develop international partnerships for global security and sales, strengthen service offerings, strategic problem solving and leadership of large teams. She is forward thinking with deep expertise in how products and services are sold to international governments.

Grant joined Boeing in November 2021 and served as Vice President of Defense Global Growth & Engagement and Vice President of Business Development, where she led a team of nearly 500 people in 25 states and 16 countries representing the company’s defense, space, and government services portfolios. Her team developed and maintained customer relationships that aligned Boeing’s products and services with customer mission requirements, capturing new business and achieving business growth of over $24B annually.

Before joining Boeing, Grant served in the U.S. Department of Defense, where she was a member of the Senior Executive Service for 19 of her 32 years, with her last appointment as the Director for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, responsible for all DOD security cooperation programs involving defense articles military training and other defense-related services. She oversaw more than 15,000 foreign military sales cases with more than 150 countries valued at over $600 billion. She also managed a certification program for 20,000 civilian and military personnel. Before leading the agency, Grant was director of Defense Technology Security Administration, responsible for developing and implementing global technology security policies for international transfer of defense-related goods, services, and technologies.

From 2010 through 2018, Grant served as deputy undersecretary of the Air Force, International Affairs, providing oversight and guidance for international policy and for programs supporting global national security objectives, technology and information disclosure, security assistance, education and training, and cooperative research and development. She also managed the Air Force Foreign Liaison Office and attaché affairs.

In 2002, Grant was appointed to the Senior Executive Service and assigned as the first civilian director of resources and analysis for USCENTCOM: the Middle East, Central and South Asia, and North East Africa. Collaborating with senior representatives from 65 countries, she led resource strategy and analysis for operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. She later helped establish U.S. Africa Command as its first director of resources, leading personnel and financial programming that served as the foundation for successful interagency and international partnerships for global security.

Grant currently serves as a board member for the Space Force Association (SFA) and the Royal Air Force Museum American Foundation (RAFMAF). She is also on the Global Special Operations Forces (GSOF) Advisory Council and the Armed Forces Communication Electronics Association (AFCEA) International Executive Committee. Additionally, she served on the USO National Capital District Advisory Board (2021-2024), University of Oklahoma (OU) Strategic Research Advisory Board (2022-2024) and Pfeiffer University Board of Trustees as Strategy Committee Chairman (2023-2024).

Grant is also a member of the Business Executives for National Security and the Council on Foreign Relations.