Heidi Fleming is a Director for Navy and Marine Corps Programs, Patuxent River Field Office, Lockheed Martin Government Affairs. She is responsible for liaison with Navy and Marine Corps at Naval Air Station Patuxent River regarding aviation acquisition, development, test, sustainment, and logistics programs.

She joined Lockheed Martin in November 2016 after she concluded 27 years of service in the U.S. Navy. She served operationally in the C-130 and P-3 communities deploying worldwide. While ashore, she held Congressional Affairs assignments with the Navy Secretariat and Secretary of Defense (OSD) working appropriations and authorization priorities respectively. Overseeing the DoD accounts for science, technology, research and development, and weapons systems acquisitions during her OSD tour, she provided congressional affairs support for senior OSD (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics) principals. Other shore assignments included the U.S Naval Academy and Commander, Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing ELEVEN. She held squadron command (VXS-1) at the Navy’s only science and technology squadron and deployed to a combat theater. She retired from the U.S. Navy as Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station Patuxent River, where research, development, test, and evaluation for Naval Aviation is conducted.

A Naval Academy graduate, she also earned her Masters of Science in National Resource Strategy and graduated from the Senior Acquisition Course from National Defense University, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, “The Eisenhower School.”