SEWP’s long-tenured leader is calling it a career

Before leaving government, Joanne Woytek is giving herself enough time to see the popular IT contract's next iteration through protests and into launch.

Joanne Woytek, the long-time leader of arguably the most successful procurement program in history, penned a 52-word LinkedIn post to announce she is calling it a career.

But that is not a complete surprise. Woytek teased her retirement in September 2023, when she said SEWP VI will be her “last hurrah.” She pledged then that she would stick around through the early days of the popular IT contract’s launch.

Woytek did not launch the SEWP program in 1993, but has been running it as the program manager since 1999.

NASA has said it wants to award SEWP VI by the end of April when SEWP V expires, but a group of protests at the Government Accountability Office threaten to force NASA to delay awards and ...