A 2019 Special Recognition honoree, Erlene Adams, a program manager within the Leidos Corporation's Federal Energy Environment | Civil Group, was honored as a Women of Color Technology All-star in 2012.

Currently, as program manager for the Army Corps of Engineers Information Technology (ACE-IT) Contract, she is responsible for performance that provides secure enterprise-wide information management/information technology support services to more than 37,000 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers customers located throughout the continental U.S.

Adams leads over 600 dedicated professionals, located in 55 offices and approximately $100 million in revenue.

Before joining Leidos, she spent years working for Lockheed Martin supporting both the Army Corps of Engineers (where she consolidated 55 major sites into a consolidated Enterprise Service Desk) and NASA Centers across the United States.

She is a recipient of the Lockheed Martin Celebration of Excellence Award (2011, 2015).