Pricing Council

Fred Avila

Fred Avila

VP, Pricing Solutions, Mission Technologies, a division of HII

Fred is the Vice President of the Pricing Solutions team at HII Mission Technologies. Fred oversees a team of professionals supporting the Pricing and Price Strategy functions. The mission of Pricing Solutions is to deliver compliant, yet compelling prices to the government that positions HII for financial success. His expertise has enhanced HII’s price strategy maturity, cost-competitiveness, and awareness of competitive positioning.

Fred joined HII by way of the Alion acquisition, where he served as the Vice President of Pricing Solutions and prior to that Director of Price-to-Win. Fred played an integral role as the architect of pricing strategies that resulted in key contract awards.

Fred brings more than 24 years of progressive experience in the defense contracting space. His expertise spans government contract pricing, price-to-win, tactical and strategic competitive intelligence collection and analysis, and financial modeling and analysis. Fred has extensive industry experience in both small and large enterprises. Prior to HII, he served as the Senior Director, Price Strategy at MacAulay Brown, Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, Manager of Pricing at Maximus, Competitive Intelligence Analyst / Price-to-Win Specialist at Northrop Grumman, and Finance Manager at Oracle.

Fred earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from California State Polytechnic University Pomona with a major in Finance and a minor in Economics.

HII is an all-domain defense and technologies partner, recognized worldwide as America’s largest shipbuilder. With a 135-year history of trusted partnerships in advancing U.S. national security, HII delivers critical capabilities ranging from the most powerful and survivable naval ships ever built, to unmanned systems, ISR and AI/ML analytics. HII leads the industry in mission-driven solutions that support and enable an all-domain force. Headquartered in Virginia, HII’s skilled workforce is 44,000 strong. For more information please visit: HII.com.

Meryl Glidewell

Meryl Glidewell

VP, Pricing at CACI International

Meryl Glidewell is the Vice President of the competitive intelligence, price to win, strategic pricing & estimation organization for CACI International, Inc. She leads initiatives that leverage data-driven insights to enhance competitive positioning and profitability. Meryl excels in directing strategic pricing efforts and has a proven track record of integrating competitive intelligence, conducting rigorous analysis, and developing tailored pricing strategies that contributed to substantial growth and key contract awards.

Meryl brings over 20 years of progressive experience in defense contracting. Prior to joining CACI, Meryl held a number of positions at Raytheon Technologies and The Boeing Company supporting pricing strategy, price to win, estimating, contract management, supply chain finance, and business management for Department of Defense, intelligence community, civilian agencies, and international customers.

Meryl holds a Master of Business Administration from Saint Louis University’s John Cook School of Business, complemented by a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics and certifications in Contract Management and Project Management.