Biosketch
Ty Hughes founded Hughes Law PLC to help clients solve problems and successfully navigate the increasingly complex world of federal procurement. He draws on more than three decades of government, corporate, and law firm experience.
He was Vice President and General Counsel for the Fluor Government Group from 2012–2016. He served as the Deputy General Counsel for Acquisition for the U.S. Air Force from 2002–2011, advising the Secretary of the Air Force and the Headquarters Air Force Staff on procurement law and the acquisition of major systems. Before that, he was a partner at Patton Boggs LLP and a counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of King & Spalding LLP.
He served in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps until 1992. His active duty assignments included Assistant to the General Counsel of the Army, Special Assistant to the Inspector General of the Department of Defense, and Chief Counsel for the Department of Defense Post-War Reconstruction Assistance Office in Kuwait. He was a trial counsel in the 82nd Airborne Division and earned the master parachutist badge. He also served as a trial attorney and a supervising trial attorney representing the Army in contract litigation before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals. He entered the U.S. Army in 1972 as a Second Lieutenant after graduation from the U.S. Military Academy.
The White House appointed him as a member of the Acquisition Advisory Panel created by Section 1423 of the Services Acquisition Reform Act of 2003. He is an honorary faculty member of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
He holds a B.S. in Applied Science and Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy. He received his J.D. and M.B.A. from Boston University, LL.M. from Georgetown University, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He graduated from the Program Managers course at the Defense Systems Management College.