Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2021
Serving the Defense Department requires deep knowledge of its mission, the ability to provide secure innovative solutions, and a status as a trusted, strategic partner for the nation’s top line of defense. As technology and the defense landscape evolve, so do the needs of agencies and service members to continue protecting the nation effectively, efficiently
Top 25 MarCom Leaders to Watch in 2020
In the highly competitive and evolving world of government contracting, companies need to stay ahead of the game and on top of the trends to grow, succeed and achieve mission objectives internally and for customers. The teams leading these efforts set the company’s marketing and communications strategies with industry knowledge, strategic marketing techniques and expertise.
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: Peraton’s John Coleman
Bringing together complementary technical capabilities from the former Defense & Electronic Warfare and Homeland Security sectors, John Coleman positioned Peraton to address a broader array of growing customer needs in border C4ISR, identity and threat detection and response, data analytics, software development, advanced logistics and systems modernization. Coleman, who serves as president of defense and
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: Deloitte Consulting’s Heather Reilly
Heather Reilly has over 20 years of professional experience and oversees a $1 billion portfolio of work across the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Justice and intelligence sub-sectors, encompassing over 5,700 practitioners. Reilly is one of the firm’s experts on immigration and border security work. In this capacity, she led delivery teams focused on enhancing
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: CACI’s Steve Tolbert
Steve Tolbert leads CACI’s Business Systems group, which provides the Defense Department and intelligence community with enterprisewide business solutions in finance, human capital management, acquisition support and business operations support. Prior to joining CACI, Tolbert served as a senior vice president at Perspecta, and before that, as a senior vice president at SRA. He also previously
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: VT Group’s Sunil Ramchand
“VT Group is making big changes” — a big statement for a company that can trace its 150-year legacy to 1866. That excites Chief Growth Officer Sunil Ramchand, who teamed up with CEO John Hassoun and a cadre of seasoned industry executives in 2018 to transform the Victorian-era shipbuilder into a full lifecycle engineering player
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: Alion’s Terri Walker-Spoonhour
As senior vice president of operations, Terri Walker-Spoonhour is responsible for the overall health of Alion’s business portfolio to include program performance, business planning and strategy, measurement, and financial and business growth. She was previously the senior vice president of the Alion Distributed Simulation Group, where she led a team that consistently achieved or exceeded performance
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: Perspecta’s Jeff Bohling
In 2019, Jeff Bohling’s team achieved significant growth fueled in large part by a contract to provide cybersecurity operations support to the U.S. Army. Another win under Bohling was the agreement to modernize the U.S. Air Force’s Secret Internet Protocol Router Network for transmitting classified information. Additionally, the defense group secured a prime position on
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: CGI’s Tim Spadafore
Building on a 24-plus-year career, Tim Spadafore led TeraThink’s integration of its agile enablement, application development and data analytics capabilities during its merger with CGI earlier this year. His experience and contributions in the federal marketplace led to his return to CGI as vice president of defense and intelligence practice at CGI Federal. “By working
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: Air Force’s JJ Snow
AFWERX is an Air Force initiative that thinks beyond just Air Force requirements. This innovative team can be found collaborating with various Defense Department and interagency, academic and industry partners to enable solutions across the full spectrum of government and military operations. “We aren’t a big team, but we work hard to make a big
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: AWS’ Jennifer Chronis
Over the past four years, Jennifer Chronis has led the Defense Department business for Amazon Web Services, which supports customers of all missions and sizes. She previously spent 15 years in the federal IT industry and served for two decades of combined active and reserve duty in the U.S. Army as a logistics officer. Since
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020
Serving the Defense Department requires deep knowledge of its mission, providing secure innovative solutions and being a trusted, strategic partner for the nation’s top line of defense. As technology and the defense landscape evolve, so do the needs of agencies and service members to continue protecting the nation effectively, efficiently and strategically. For WashingtonExec’s Top
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: Leidos’ Kevin Fogarty
Kevin Fogarty has spent 18 years developing a career at Leidos, and now focuses on creating scaled-agile approaches to cyber mission management application development and implementing a companywide cyber R&D lab to provide for rapid prototyping and testing of cyber capabilities. He serves as chief technology officer of Leidos’ Cyber and SIGINT Solutions Operation. Differentiated
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: Guidehouse’s Marianne Bailey
Marianne Bailey joined Guidehouse in October 2019, bringing to the role three decades of experience protecting the nation’s critical security systems, including as deputy national manager for U.S. national security systems at the National Security Agency. While leading the NSA cybersecurity program, Bailey drove the largest cybersecurity and cryptographic modernization program in the last two
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: Alion’s Katie Selbe
In July 2019, Alion reorganized to establish the Cyber Network Solutions Group to exclusively focus on cyber and network solutions. Katie Selbe was tapped to lead that organization, given her track record of operational excellence and background in cyber and C5ISR domains. Selbe now leads a diverse portfolio of programs and capabilities delivering full-spectrum cyber operations;
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: Jacobs’ Caesar Nieves
Caesar Nieves brings to his role at Jacobs more than 20 years of senior-level experience as a business and technical leader directly supporting government clients and growing cyber businesses. He also served in the U.S. Air Force, where he was responsible for the acquisition, configuration and maintenance of network operations while assigned to HQ Air
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: ManTech’s Srini Iyer
As senior vice president and chief technology officer of ManTech’s Mission Solutions and Services Group, Srini Iyer said one of the many achievements he was proud to help lead in 2019 was the unit’s work on the Secured Tactical Edge Platform. This platform provides the capability to deliver vital intelligence to warfighters at the tactical
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: AppGate Federal Group’s Greg Touhill
Retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Greg Touhill currently serves as president of AppGate’s Federal Division, supporting agencies across the federal government with secure infrastructure solutions delivered from data centers. Appointed by President Barack Obama as the nation’s first federal chief information security officer in 2016, Touhill was tasked with ensuring proper digital security policies,
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: ICF’s Randy James
Since 2017, Randy James has overseen ICF’s Mission Services & Technology Solutions’ mission of providing transformative, integrated and adaptive risk management, IT and resiliency solutions for federal, state and commercial customers. This includes identifying, prioritizing and mitigating threats to missions across critical infrastructure, networks and systems. In 2019, James recognizes the hiring of a mission-driven
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: OMB’s Suzette Kent
Suzette Kent was appointed federal chief information officer in January 2018, and has already helped turn visions and early ideas into reality Those achievements include updating key policies, such as shared services, identity, credential and access management, the Cloud Smart strategy and Trusted Internet Connection. In 2019, Kent’s office also launched a first-of-its-kind Federal Data
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: DHS’ Garth White
As the chief information security officer for the Science and Technology Directorate at Department of Homeland Security, Garth White is responsible for information security for all research and development programs and oversees the cybersecurity activity of a network of nationwide employees leveraging classified and unclassified systems and hundreds of R&D programs annually. “I spearhead the
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: SAIC’s Alicia Lynch
Alicia Lynch joined the Science Applications International Corp. team in April 2018, bringing more than 30 years of experience with the Defense Department, the defense contracting community and the private sector. She retired as a colonel from the U.S. Army in 2012, where she served as both an intelligence officer and a cybersecurity specialist. Over
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: HHS’ Janet Vogel
Janet Vogel joined the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Secretary in 2018 with more than 25 years of experience, and has been instrumental in spearheading the department’s adoption of a cybersecurity risk management philosophy. Under her leadership, HHS has implemented more comprehensive toolsets that facilitate risk-based decision-making. Vogel, who serves as
Top 25 Cyber Execs to Watch in 2020: Peraton’s Jim Schifalacqua
Joining Peraton in 2018, Jim Schifalacqua has worked to integrate an entirely new infrastructure and cybersecurity architecture using a cloud-first approach. This architecture proved critical during the COVID-19 crisis, when employees were able to quickly pivot to a remote working environment, having the same secure capabilities as they had in their offices. The Peraton approach
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