Top 10 DOD Execs to Watch: Retired Lt. Gen. William Bender, Leidos
After retiring from the U.S. Air Force following a 34-year career there, William Bender joined Leidos in September 2017. Now tasked with overseeing and managing the Strategic Account Executives, a group of customer-facing senior-level former government officials, Bender aims to bolster customer relationships and advance strategic initiatives to foster organic growth. In his first year
Top 10 DOD Execs to Watch: Jeff Bohling, Perspecta
Last year, Jeff Bohling’s biggest achievement was the creation of Perspecta’s Defense Group. As the new company was being established last June, executives had to merge complex organizations and cultures while continuing to deliver to customers and grow the business. “There were a lot of moving parts, and I’m proud of how we’ve come together
Top 10 DOD Execs to Watch: Jennifer Chronis, AWS
Jennifer Chronis joined Amazon Web Services in 2016 after 15 years in the federal IT industry, and two decades of combined active and reserve duty in the U.S. Army as a logistics officer. Under her leadership role at Amazon, Defense Department customers are accelerating their journey to the cloud. In 2018, DOD moved meaningful enterprise
Top 10 DOD Execs to Watch: Karen Dahut, Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton achieved record growth last year as it continued to serve the Defense Department, military services and leading defense agencies. Its business has shifted even deeper into fields such as technology, engineering, cyber and mission-essential areas. The company is developing cutting-edge solutions with artificial intelligence, cyber and immersive experience to help its clients
Top 10 DOD Execs to Watch: Nick V. Farah, CACI
Nick Farah leads teams of highly diversified acquisition, engineering, scientific, technical and security professionals delivering innovative command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance applications and logistics to the Defense Department and the intelligence community. The company’s Mission Solutions and Services group focuses on providing solutions and services in its command and control, communications, logistics
Top 10 DOD Execs to Watch: Frank Helmick, SOSi
Frank Helmick’s Mission Solutions Group has been providing logistics and life support services in Iraq since 2012. His team continues to embody the SOS International tagline “challenge accepted” ensuring SOSi clients — which include the U.S. military, U.S. government contractors, NATO forces as well as non-NATO countries — receive exceptional quality of services while on
Top 10 DOD Execs to Watch: Jack Johnson, Guidehouse
Under the Veritas Capital portfolio, Guidehouse is supporting the Pentagon’s key weapon systems as well as transformation initiatives and business and personnel challenges across all of the military services. That includes helping improve overall readiness, illuminate the supply chain for critical weapon system and provide best-in-class financial management support. Guidehouse consultants work side-by-side with their
Top 10 DOD Execs to Watch: Mary Legere, Accenture Federal Services
With her 34 years of experience as an innovative intelligence leader, retired Lt. Gen. Mary Legere is helping defense and cyber organizations accelerate their journey to digital and, ultimately, achieve greater mission success. Since joining Accenture Federal Services in October 2016, Legere has worked to connect Accenture Federal Services capabilities in cloud, artificial intelligence, cyber
Top 10 DOD Execs to Watch in 2019
Serving the Defense Department requires knowing the agency’s mission, providing secure innovative solutions and being a trusted, strategic partner for the nation’s top line of defense. For WashingtonExec’s inaugural Top 10 DOD Executives to Watch in 2019 list, we identified the best of the best, based not only on their accomplishments but on their impact on
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