Whitney Jones is the President and Owner of Whisky Tango LLC, a strategy company dedicated to working alongside defense industry, private equity, and Government to address defense challenges, opportunities, and requirements. She works with partners to effectively operate within the systems and structures of the U.S. Government national security sector, the Executive and Legislative branches, and the point of intersection between federal and private investment.
Whitney resigned from the Federal Government in May 2025 as the Deputy Program Manager for the Navy’s Maritime Industrial Base (MIB) program, a Direct Reporting Program Manager to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, and Acquisition. As Deputy of MIB, Ms. Jones was responsible for leading enterprise efforts to build resilience and readiness across the defense industrial base. She was accountable for efforts across a multi-billion-dollar portfolio that included supply chain capability and capacity, defense workforce, manufacturing technology, and public-private partnership. Her role focused on fostering relationships between Navy, industry, and academia to improve communications, industrial processes, and supply chain. Leading up to this role, Whitney served as the Director for the Submarine Industrial Base (SIB), a component of the Navy’s (DON) Program Executive Office, Strategic Submarines (PEO SSBN).
Between February 2019 – July 2020, Ms. Jones served as Deputy, Shipbuilding Industrial Base Task Force, where she leveraged her shipbuilding acquisition and supply chain experience to coordinate cross-enterprise efforts and oversee strategic communications. She also led Navy Enterprise response, engagement, and assessment of the impacts of COVID-19 on the defense industrial base, working closely with industry to mitigate the pandemic’s impact on key suppliers by maintaining defense supply chains as part of “critical infrastructure” exempt from work stoppages.
From 2017-2019, Ms. Jones gained valuable defense industry experience in roles that included strategy and communications support for the Columbia Class Submarine Program, and she spent a year working in industry doing strategy development for a major defense electronics supplier. From 2015-2016, Ms. Jones was the Director of Operations for the DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer Program, and in this role in the year leading up to first-of-class delivery, she was responsible for all strategic operations and internal and external communications for the DDG 1000 program.
Early in her Navy civilian career, Ms. Jones served as a Contracting Officer Representative (COR) for a number of multi-million dollar projects, including Primary COR on a Follow-On Technical Support (FOTS) services contract valued at $1.3B and requiring over 300 contracting actions per year in support of technical services and procurements.
She began her career and connection to the Navy mission as the Communications Coordinator for the United Service Organization (USO) in Fort Myer, Virginia.
Ms. Jones earned her Bachelor of Arts, Media & Communications (with honors) from the University of Virginia in 2006. She has also earned Program Management Certification from the Defense Acquisition University. Her awards include DON Innovation Excellence Acquisition Team of the Year (July 2021) and numerous special action and performance awards from both her industry and government service.