BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRICAN AMERICAN " MATICE WRIGHT " A GRADUATE OF THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY AT ANNAPOLIS AND MADE HISTORY WHEN SHE BECAME THE NAVY'S FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE NAVAL FLIGHT OFFICER : GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK HEROE "

   BLACK    SOCIAL   HISTORY                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Matice Wright

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Matice Wright has more than a decade of experience working in the government-contracting industry. Her roles in the industry include working as a business analyst for SRA International and management consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton. Wright currently works as principal director of industrial policy for the Defense Department.

Wright attended the United States Naval Academy in her hometown of Annapolis, Md. She made history when she became the Navy’s first African American, female naval flight officer. In a blog written for the White House’s website, Wright acknowledges the “many African Americans that donned a uniform and flew before me like Gen. Chappie James and Vice Adm. Walt Davis.”

After serving on active duty for eight years, Wright received a presidential appointment and served as a White House fellow for the Treasury Department. She also managed international military helicopter programs for Sikorsky Aircraft.

In her current position as principal director for DoD, Wright reviews industrial capabilities and assessments, defense industry mergers, acquisitions and consolidations, developing DoD policies and procedures and provides advice associated with the health of the industrial base and other related matters. Wright described her duties at DoD on the White House blog: “I have to ensure that the sailors and soldiers that defend our great nation every minute of every day are able to depend on the companies that make up the defense, and industrial base and those companies assume a tremendous responsibility to meet the warfighters needs,” she said.

Wright earned a bachelor’s degree in physical sciences from the Naval Academy, a master’s in public administration from Harvard and a master’s in business administration with a finance concentration from Johns Hopkins University.