May 30th, 2024

Congratulations to Manny Collado, Associate Vice President of System & Mission Engineering!

PLEX is thrilled to announce the promotion of Manny Collado to Associate Vice President! Since joining PLEX in February 2022, Manny has worked as a Program Integrator, Systems Engineer, and a Systems Engineer Technical Advisor (SETA) Portfolio Contract Lead in the S&ME business unit. Manny has excitedly embraced every task and challenge given him as a PLEX Lead, and he has accepted a greatly increased level of responsibility. We are honored at his dedication and service to PLEX and the employees he manages. Manny has been a fantastic PLEX cheerleader, and always has a smile on his face and PLEX gear on his back.

Manny began his career in 1999 as an Aviation Maintainer in the US Navy where he completed multiple deployments in the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf on board several aircraft carriers. In 2002 Manny left the aviation community and joined the intelligence community (IC) as an analyst where he specialized in multiple foreign languages, SIGINT, GEOINT, HUMINT and CYBER. He served on board various reconnaissance platforms and provided operational support to task force units in support of several large scale operations to include OPERATION NORTHERN WATCH, GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR (GWOT), OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM (OEF), OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF), and OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE. In 2014 Manny helped stand up Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) in Ft Meade Maryland. He played an integral role in the creation, certification and establishment of 4 Cyber Mission Force Teams (CMF) where he led over 200 joint-service members operating in the respective National Mission Team (NMT), Combat Mission Team (CMT), Cyber Protection Team (CPT) and National Support Team (NST). During his tenure at CNMF Manny & his teams were recognized for having achieved success against top priority CNMF cyber adversaries.

Manny holds an Associate’s in Persian Farsi, a Bachelor’s in Business & Entrepreneurship and is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Project Management from Georgetown University. In his free time Manny enjoys traveling, riding his motorcycle, spending quality time with his family and watching sports; specifically the New York Yankees, New York Jets, New York Knicks and Formula One!