Andre’a D. Kiewert
Program Manager

Andre’a Kiewert serves as Mystic Spear Program Manager.  She was a Diesel Division General Motors (DDGM) Field Service Representative at the Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) Test Directorate in Twentynine Palms, California for 3+ years, collecting and analyzing data during continuous field missions.  When the US Army was tasked to support the Saudi Arabian National Guard (OPM SANG) in fielding the entire suite of LAV variants, Andre’a lived nearly 5 years in Riyadh, KSA.   Working directly with the US Army as a GS civilian, she was responsible to build train-the-trainer packages for each variant of LAV, peculiar to its mission role.  Upon return to the United States, in Quantico, Virginia at Marine Corps Systems Command (MARCORSYSCOM), during the height of Operation Enduring Freedom, she worked as a Program Analyst under L3 Contract to grow a team of Engineers of 6 to 30.  This team was assigned to rapidly field a variety of Counter-IED (CREW) hardware suites of over $110M per year, and Ms. Kiewert was integral to writing and submitting all necessary documentation to Secretary of the Navy for CREW to become a Program of Record.  She continued work as a Program Analyst on US Navy contract for the Explosive Ordnance Division (NAV-EOD) over 7 years, integrating CREW systems to a variety of platforms, fielding millions of dollars worth of CREW weapons funded directly by congress through the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO).  At troop draw-down, CREW weapons were returned to the US and JIEDDO closed.  Ms. Kiewert was then assigned for over 4 years to United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Chimera project in Program Management.  Chimera was engineered as a system to leverage cyber security algorithms, artificial intelligence and machine learning to deliver critical and accurate intelligence packages to the Special Operations Forces in their field of operation.  Most recently, Andre’a served 2 years as Program Manager at a small Engineering Firm assigned to build an Automated Acquisitions Platform funded by USSOCOM Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) office.