2021 GMiS Luminary Honorees

As Vice President and Division Manager within the Civil Group at Leidos, Nathan Apodaca is responsible for providing information technology solutions to civilian agencies.

His current role is as Program Manager of the NASA End-User Services and Technology (NEST) program, where he is responsible for providing Enterprise information technology services and solutions, as well as providing hardware, software, mobile devices and accessories consumed by 60,000 end users across 18 performance sites within the US.

Prior to this role, Mr. Apodaca managed an information management & technology contract providing support services to more than 37,000 US Army Corps of Engineers customers located across the globe.

He has also served as Senior Program Manager for the Desktop Institutional Computing Environment program at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he oversaw critical IT services, such as email, storage, virtualization and cloud computing.

Mr. Apocada graduated Cum Laude from National American University, in Colorado Springs, CO, with a B.S. in Information Technology with a concentration in Management Information Systems. He also earned an MBA with emphasis in Technology Management from Colorado Technical University in Colorado Springs.

He has received multiple awards for his work including several awards from NASA, JPL and Lockheed Martin, as well as the prestigious Leidos Group Presidents Award.